Friday, November 10, 2023

Visual Relics (1983-1986)

Joel Meyerowitz
Wisteria
1983
dye transfer print
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Joel Meyerowitz
Street Busker, Paris
1983
dye transfer print
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Joel Meyerowitz
Sasha Meyerowitz at 17
1983
C-print
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Joel Meyerowitz
Sasha
1984
C-print
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Joel Meyerowitz
Maxine
1984
C-print
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Nan Goldin
"Variety" Booth, NYC
1983
C-print
Yale University Art Gallery

Nan Goldin
Nan and Brian in Bed in Kimono
1983
C-print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Nan Goldin
Cookie and Vittorio's Wedding, New York City
1986
C-print
Yale University Art Gallery

Deborah Turbeville
Fashion Shot for Vanity Fair
1984
gelatin silver print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Tina Barney
Graduation
1984
C-print
Milwaukee Art Museum

William Klein
Backstage, J.-P. Gaultier, Paris
1984
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Robert Mapplethorpe
Vibert
1984
gelatin silver print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Sandra Russell Clark
Bayou Liberty
1984
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Derry Moore
Rudolf Nureyev
1985
color print
National Portrait Gallery, London

Gary Sutton
Portrait
ca. 1985
cyanotype
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Dafydd Jones
Archie Orr-Ewing and Polly Astor,
Abomni Ball, Grosvenor House, London

1986
gelatin silver print
Yale Center for British Art

from Fairy Tales from the Web

People make money through advertisements,
or so they think – well, selling ads, that's quantifiable –
if ads make money, that is more difficult
to know unless there are special offers.
The web is full of special offers and 30-day
trials. If you fall for those, or should I say,
if you respond to the offer

what often happens is that your information
is shared with other companies who will fill your inbox
with offers (that which is known as spam).
Because you are someone who wants to look great
and there are other companies with products compatible
with your stated desire. Ways for you to achieve
the prevailing notion of beauty. 

It is my job to tell you the models
are selected because they are physically improbable.
They are elevated to be made desirable.
Their desirability is physical because they are models.
If it were easy to be like that, they would not
be sought-after by manufacturers.
Generally, working people need to be sturdy.

– Ish Klein (2011)