Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Visual Relics (1977-1980)

Joel Meyerowitz
Provincetown Interior
1977
C-print
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Joel Meyerowitz
Porch Series, Provincetown
1977
C-print
Milwaukee Art Museum

Joel Meyerowitz
Empire State Series
1978
C-print
Milwaukee Art Museum

Jane Bown
Duncan Grant
1978
bromide print
National Portrait Gallery, London

Jane Bown
Iris Murdoch
1978
bromide print
National Portrait Gallery, London

Jane Bown
Angelica Garnett
1979
bromide print
National Portrait Gallery, London

 Deborah Turbeville 
Fashion Shot for Italian Vogue
1978
gelatin silver print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Deborah Turbeville
Versailles
1979
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Robert Mapplethorpe
Mario Amaya
1978
gelatin silver print
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Robert Mapplethorpe
Patti Smith
1979
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Robert Mapplethorpe
Frank Diaz
1979
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Harry Callahan
Venice
1978
dye transfer print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Nan Goldin
Mark and Mark, Boston
1978
C-print
Yale University Art Gallery

Antony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowden
Iris Murdoch
1980
bromide print
National Portrait Gallery, London

Marie Cosindas
Cincinnati Art Museum Centennial Still Life
1980
C-print from large format Polaroid
Cincinnati Art Museum

David Michael Kennedy
Patti LaBelle, NYC
1980
platinum silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Screened Porch, Druid Hills

Spring pulls a nervous smile across winter's face.
There has been sweet time taken in the bureaucracy
Of the trees, which try to compensate with space.
It's less a filling out, though, than a cover-up – glossy
Leaves where brave ones last hung on. Each bract,
Each catkin and flower arrives like a gravestone.
No, like a second wife. There's no hiding the fact.
Beauty throws the dog memory a splintering bone.

– Rex Wilder (1996)

William Christenberry
Windows of Palmist Building, Havana, Alabama
1980
C-print
Milwaukee Art Museum