Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Visual Relics (1900-1914)

Eugène Atget
Balcony, 21 rue Poissonnière, Paris
ca. 1900
albumen silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Eugène Atget
Parc de Versailles
1902
albumen print
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

London Stereoscopic Company
Constance Collier as Pallas Athena in Ulysses
1902
photograph printed on card
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Edward Steichen
The Big White Cloud
1906
halftone
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Edward Steichen
Henri Matisse
1909
photogravure
Indianapolis Museum of Art

Arnold Genthe
Julia Marlowe as Lady MacBeth
1907
autochrome
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Arnold Genthe
Edward Hugh Sothern as Hamlet
ca. 1913
bromide print
National Portrait Gallery, London

Alvin Langdon Coburn
Two Trees, Rothenberg
1908
photogravure
Milwaukee Art Museum

Alvin Langdon Coburn
Fountain, Trafalgar Square
ca. 1909
photogravure
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Alvin Langdon Coburn
Mark Twain
1911
autochrome (book illustration)
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Clarence H. White
Lady in Black with the Venus de Milo
1908
photogravure
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Clarence H. White
Portrait of Mrs Lauren Drake
ca. 1900-1905
cyanotype
Princeton University Art Museum

Clarence H. White
Portrait of Mrs Clarence H. White
ca. 1910
photogravure
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Clarence H. White
Alvin Langdon Coburn and his Mother
1910
photogravure
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Emil Otto Hoppé
Tamara Karsavina with Adolf Bolm
in The Firebird (Ballets Russes)

1911
photogravure
Detroit Institue of Arts

August Sander
Three Farmers on their way to a Dance, Westerwald
1914
gelatin silver print
Milwaukee Art Museum

from Spring and All

The farmer in deep thought
is pacing through the rain
among his blank fields with
hands in pockets,
in his head
the harvest already planted.
A cold wind ruffles the water
among the browned weeds.
On all sides
the world rolls coldly away:
black orchards
darkened by the March clouds –
leaving room for thought.
Down past the brushwood
bristling by
the rainsluiced wagonroad
looms the artist figure of
the farmer – composing
– antagonist.

– William Carlos Williams (1923)