Friday, November 24, 2023

Visual Relics (1892-1899)

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)