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| Gisèle Freund Virginia Woolf 1939 gelatin silver print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Horst P. Horst Mainbocher Corset (fashion shot for French Vogue) 1939 gelatin silver print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Kenneth Heilbron Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus Side-Show Performer with Snake 1939 gelatin silver print Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Brassaï Tirage de l'Auteur: Picasso 1939 gelatin silver print Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Brassaï Picasso at Work ca. 1939 gelatin silver print Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Ansel Adams Cemetery Statue and Oil Wells, Long Beach, California 1939 gelatin silver print Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Ansel Adams Stove, Farmyard, Pennsylvania 1939 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Ansel Adams Stove, Farmyard, Pennsylvania 1939 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Ansel Adams Small Trees beside a Large Tree Trunk 1939 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| George Arcus Mary Stamats ca. 1940 gelatin silver print Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Man Ray Juliet ca. 1940 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Albert Renger-Patzsch Church ca. 1940 gelatin silver print Milwaukee Art Museum |
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| Albert Renger-Patzsch Untitled ca. 1940 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Eugene A. Delcroix Old Stairway, Toulouse St., New Orleans ca. 1940 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Max Yavno Federal Theater Dancers 1940 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Paul Outerbridge Untitled 1940 tricolor carbro print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
The Wizard in Words
"When I am dead,"
The wizard said,
"I'll look upon the narrow way
And this Dante,
And know that he was right;
And he'll delight
In my remorse –
Of course."
"When I am dead,"
The student said,
"I shall have grown so tolerant
I'll find I can't
Laugh at your sorry plight,
Or take delight
In your chagrin,
Merlin."
– Marianne Moore (1915)