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| Elisabeth Hase Untitled (Downstairs) ca. 1948 gelatin silver print Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Ansel Adams Oak Tree, Snowstorm, Yosemite 1948 gelatin silver print Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Ansel Adams Graduation Dress, Yosemite Valley, California 1948 gelatin silver print Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Irving Penn Bea Lillie in Costume 1948 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Irving Penn Dora Maar, France 1948 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Irving Penn Martha Graham, New York 1948 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Irving Penn The Tarot Reader (fashion shot for American Vogue) 1949 platinum-palladium print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| W. Eugene Smith Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza in South Pacific 1949 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Imogen Cunningham Lisette Model and Imogen on McAllister Street, S.F. ca. 1949 gelatin silver print Cleveland Museum of Art |
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| Jane Bell Edwards Nelson Bennett 1949 gelatin silver print Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Gordon Parks Maxime Le Bailly, comtesse de La Falaise in Paris 1949 gelatin silver print Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Arnold Newman Ithaca - Policemen in Front of Fruit Stand 1949 dye imbibition print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Bob Lerner The Tower on a Winter Afternoon, Paris ca. 1949 inkjet print Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Minor White Movement Studies Number 56 (Huntington Hotel, Taylor Street, San Francisco) 1949 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Todd Webb Worthing, Sussex 1949 gelatin silver print Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Max Yavno Muscle Beach 1949 gelatin silver print Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
from Phases
Arabesques of candle beams,
Winding
Through our heavy dreams;
Winds that blew
Where the bending iris grew;
Birds of intermitted bliss,
Singing in the night's abyss;
Vines with yellow fruit,
That fell
Along the walls
That bordered Hell.
– Wallace Stevens (1914)
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| Elliott Erwitt Diana, New York 1949 gelatin silver print Minneapolis Institute of Art |