Jessie Tarbox Beals Mrs Dwight K. Yerxa as Queen Isabella in the Minneapolis pageant, Torchbearer 1918 gelatin silver print Minneapolis Institute of Art |
Jessie Tarbox Beals Pageant of the Civic Players of Minneapolis 1918 gelatin silver print Minneapolis Institute of Art |
Daguerre Studio (Chicago) Ruth Page in The Birthday of the Infanta (ballet production, Chicago Opera Association) 1919 gelatin silver print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Paul Haviland Suzanne Lalique (artist and designer) ca. 1919 platinum print Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
Man Ray William Carlos Williams (physician and poet) ca. 1920 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
Alfred Cheney Johnston Dolores and Helene Costello (silent screen stars) ca. 1920 gelatin silver print Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
Arthur F. Kales Model with Translucent Drapery ca. 1920 bromoil print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
Arthur F. Kales Doris Humphrey (dancer and choreographer) ca. 1920 gelatin silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
Jacques-Henri Lartigue Untitled ca. 1920 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Arthur Rice Alla Nazimova (silent screen star) ca. 1921 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Laura Gilpin Fishermen at Concarneau, France 1922 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Edward Weston Stanwood Badger (artist) 1923 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Eugène Atget Le Printemps by Philippe Magnier (statue at Versailles) 1922 albumen print Princeton University Art Museum |
Eugène Atget Venus by Pierre Legros the Elder (statue at Versailles) 1923-24 gelatin silver chloride print Princeton University Art Museum |
Eugène Atget Sleeping Ariadne, or Cleopatra, after antique original at the Vatican (statue at Versailles) ca. 1923-24 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
Eugène Atget Hameau de la Reine, Versailles ca. 1923-24 albumen print Princeton University Art Museum |
Sonnet in Search of an Author
Nude bodies like peeled logs
sometimes give off a sweetest
odor, man and woman
under the trees in full excess
matching the cushion of
aromatic pine-drift fallen
threaded with trailing woodbine
a sonnet might be made of it
Might be made of it! odor of excess
odor of pine needles, odor of
peeled logs, odor of no odor
other than trailing woodbine that
has no odor, odor of a nude woman
sometimes, odor of a man.
– William Carlos Williams (Pictures from Brueghel, 1962)
Joseph Petrocelli Away from the Beaten Path - Venice ca. 1923 bromoil print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |