Emily K. Herron Jeff ca. 1893 cyanotype Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
Charles Porter Brown Composite Portrait ca. 1894 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Arthur Wesley Dow Landscape ca. 1895 cyanotype Princeton University Art Museum |
Frederick H. Evans Lincoln Cathedral - Stairway in S.W. Turret 1895 platinum print Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
Frederick H. Evans Kelmscott Manor - In the Attics ca. 1896 platinum print Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
Frederick H. Evans Lincoln Cathedral from the Castle 1898 platinum print Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
F. Holland Day Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty ca. 1896-97 photogravure Art Institute of Chicago |
F. Holland Day Head of Christ 1898 platinum print Art Institute of Chicago |
Thomas Eakins Portrait of Jennie Dean Lershaw ca. 1897 platinum print Princeton University Art Museum |
Thomas Eakins Cook Cousins in Classical Costumes, Eakins's Chestnut Street Studio, Philadelphia ca. 1892 platinum print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
Lumière Brothers Gold Bangles set with Gems ca. 1898 autochromes (stereograph) Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
Wilhelm von Gloeden Untitled (Girl posed as Madonna) ca. 1898 albumen print Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
Wilhelm von Gloeden Youth posed with Classical Props on a Bank, Taormina ca. 1898 albumen print Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
Frank Eugene Portrait of Miss Jones 1899 platinum print Art Institute of Chicago |
Herbert Arthur Hess In Arcadia 1899 platinum print Princeton University Art Museum |
Alphonse Mucha Model wearing Tiara ca. 1899 gelatin silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
from Castles and Distances
From blackhearted water colder
Than Cain's blood, and aching with ice, from a gunmetal bay
No one would dream of drowning in, rises
The walrus: head hunched from the oxen shoulder,
The serious face made for surprises
Looks with a thick dismay
At the camera lens which takes
Him in, and takes him back to cities, to volleys of laughter
In film palaces, just as another, brought
By Jonas Poole to England for the sakes
Of James the First and his court, was thought
Most strange, and died soon after.
– Richard Wilbur (1950)