Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Picturing Windows - I

Eugène Atget
Boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris
1912
gelatin silver print
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Clifton R. Adams
Window at Saks Fifth Avenue, New York
ca. 1920-35
print from glass-plate negative
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Russell Lee
Drug Store Window, Washington DC
1938
gelatin silver print
New York Public Library

Berenice Abbott
Pingpank Barber Shop, Manhattan
1938
gelatin silver print
New York Public Library

Durette Studio
Untitled (Bakery Window)
ca. 1940
gelatin silver print
Harvard Art Museums

Nathan Lerner
Store Window
1943
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

Louis Faurer
Union Square from Ohrbach's Window,
New York, N.Y.
ca. 1948-50
gelatin silver print
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Brett Weston
Untitled (Display Window)
1954
gelatin silver print
Harvard Art Museums

Malcolm Hill
Football Ground - Round Window at Entrance
ca. 1960
gelatin silver print
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Richard Estes
42nd Street
1981
screenprint
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Richard Haas
Maquette for Waterside Mural #1
1982
gouache on board
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

David Hepher
Night Flats
1983
oil on canvas
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

Michael A. Smith
Reflections of Trees in a Building's Windows, Princeton, New Jersey
1984
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Robert Benjamin
Window, Seattle
1988
C-print
Denver Art Museum

Nathan H. Benn
Illuminated Tower, Chrysler Building at Dusk
1988
C-print
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Judy Gelles
Mobile Home #5
2000
dye coupler print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

from The Expendables 2

The airport where all movies end:
the scenery's mobile, the people too
(the people want to be moved), 
and the rounded stairways join set pieces
like farewells in a series arc. I don't
understand how you write good scripts
without knowing there are gods. I've
learned the same things we've all learned:
when a man runs through my hotel suite
I can expect another half a second later.

– Sam Riviere (2014)