Sunday, December 3, 2023

Visual Relics (1932-1934)

Iwao Yamawaki
In Dessau (Bauhaus Architecture)
ca. 1932
gelatin silver print
Tate Gallery

Lucien Aigner
French Prime Minister Édouard Herriot
1932
gelatin silver print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Lucien Aigner
Street Entertainer Yves le Boulanger, Paris
1934
gelatin silver print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Jacques-Henri Lartigue
Renée Perle in Hat
ca. 1932
gelatin silver print
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

George Hurrell
Dorothy Jordan
ca. 1932
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

George Hurrell
Norma Shearer
1934
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Brassaï
Lesbian Couple at Le Monocle
1932
gelatin silver print
Cleveland Museum of Art

Brassaï
Cirque Médrano, Paris
ca. 1932-33
gelatin silver print
Cleveland Museum of Art

Edward Weston
Maud Hill Dorcy and Lawrence Dorcy
1932
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

James van der Zee
Frank's Fried Fish & Lunch
1933
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Mark Markov-Grinberg
Biplanes, First Aviation Parade,
Tushina Airbase, USSR

1933
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Horst P. Horst
Models in Worth gowns
(fashion shot for French Vogue)
1933
gelatin silver print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Preston Duncan
Russell Gleason
1933
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Elisabeth Hase
Weeping Woman
ca. 1934
gelatin silver print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Margaret Bourke-White
Self Portrait
ca. 1933
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Margaret Bourke-White
Vanitie, International Yacht Races,
Newport, Rhode Island

1934
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Night Piece

Gaunt in gloom
The pale stars their torches,
Enshrouded, wave.
Ghost-fires from heaven's far verges faint illume –
Arches on soaring arches –
Night's sin-dark nave.

Seraphim 
The lost hosts awaken
To service, till
In moonless gloom each lapses, muted, dim,
Raised when she has and shaken
Her thurible.

And long and loud
To night's nave upsoaring,
A star-knell tolls – 
As the bleak incense surges, cloud on cloud,
Voidward from the adoring
Waste of souls.

– James Joyce (1917)