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| Nicholas Nixon Tom Moran, East Braintree, Massachusetts 1987 gelatin silver print Milwaukee Art Museum |
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| Wolfgang Tillmans Erasure 1988 C-print Milwaukee Art Museum |
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| Wolfgang Tillmans Arnd nude, sitting 1991 C-print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Robert Mapplethorpe Paul Wadina 1988 photolithograph Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Thomas Struth Louvre III 1989 C-print Cincinnati Art Museum |
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| Thomas Struth San Zaccaria, Venice 1995 C-print Cleveland Museum of Art |
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| William Eggleston Eudora Welty's Kitchen 1989 C-print Cleveland Museum of Art |
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| Duane Michals On hot summer nights ca. 1990 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Duane Michals The father prepares his dead son's body for burial 1991 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Edward Burtynsky Rock of Ages #4 - Abandoned Section, Adam Pirie Quarry, Barre, Vermont 1991 C-print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Edward Burtynsky Nickel Tailings #34 1996 C-print Cleveland Museum of Art |
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| Edward Burtynsky Nickel Tailings #36 1996 C-print Milwaukee Art Museum |
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| Robert Bergman Untitled 1994 pigment print Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Jillian Edelstein Ian Bostridge 1997 C-print National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Gregory Crewdson Untitled 1998 C-print Indianapolis Museum of Art |
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| Gregory Crewdson Untitled 1999 C-print Milwaukee Art Museum |
Signs
Threading the palm, a web of tiny lines
Spells out the lost money, the heart, the head,
The wagging tongues, the sudden deaths, in signs
We would smooth out like imprints on a bed.
In signs that can't be helped, geese heading south,
In signs read anxiously, like breath that clouds
A mirror held to a barely open mouth,
Like telegrams, the gathering of crowds –
The plane, an X in the sky spelling disaster:
Before the whistle and hit, a tracer flare;
Before rubble, a hairline crack in plaster
And a housefly's panicked scribbling on the air.
– Gjertrud Schnackenberg (1974)