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| Cameron Studio (London) Johnston Forbes-Robertson as Leontes in The Winter's Tale 1887 albumen print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Félix Nadar Sarah Bernhardt in Sardou's Tosca 1887 albumen silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Eadweard Muybridge Animal Locomotion, Plate 60 1887 collotypes Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Eadweard Muybridge Animal Locomotion, Plate 160 1887 collotypes Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Eadweard Muybridge Animal Locomotion, Plate 298 1887 collotypes Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Eadweard Muybridge Animal Locomotion, Plate 368 1887 collotypes Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Eadweard Muybridge Animal Locomotion, Plate 529 1887 collotypes Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Frederick H. Evans Hedgerow Study ca. 1888 platinum print Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Lyddell Sawyer Waiting for the Boats ca. 1889-90 photogravure Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Here is another image that purports to represent a slice of life, a journalistic narrative, with anxious women and men (a few men) on a dock, collectively awaiting the overdue return of their fishermen-kin. In fact, Sawyer staged these tableaux with great care and some expense, hiring (in this case) seventeen local villagers, dressing them, positioning them, and stage-directing each individual attitude and gaze. The missing fishermen are, of course, fictional – if they did exist, the crowd would assuredly not present a vision at all resembling this graceful and scrupulously balanced scene.
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| Evelyn Myers Rebekah at the Well ca. 1889-90 photogravure Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Wilhelm von Gloeden Sicilian Youth in Classical Garb ca. 1890 albumen print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Wilhelm von Gloeden Two Youths in a Landscape ca. 1890 albumen print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Étienne-Jules Marey Model swinging a Stick ca. 1890 collotypes Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Étienne-Jules Marey Model pulling a Rope ca. 1890 collotypes Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Abelardo Linares Nuestra Señora de las Angustias, Patroness of Granada ca. 1890 albumen print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Thomas Eakins Portrait of Amelia C. Van Buren 1890 platinum print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
from The New Boy 2
You may find at the market a casual comment swerves into
conversation that's deeply metaphysical with a young man by
produce.
He wears a white T and jeans, ordinary yet careful about his food.
"Every time I meditate, I begin in space among the stars," he says.
"Many of these things," he continues, " are not physically 3-D, so it's
frustrating to describe them."
"I have the impression their silver color comes from within."
"They look at me with tremendous love from almond-shaped eyes."
"There's not sunlight. The whole cloud structure is luminous and the
ground crystalline."
"A lot of purple and blue, like twilight."
– Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge (2017)