Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Visual Relics (1951-1952)

Consuelo Kanaga
Portrait of Mark Rothko
1951
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Charles Sheeler
Beech Trees, Dows Lane, Irvington, New York
1951
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Todd Webb
Alesia Bus Stop, Paris
1951
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Todd Webb
Abandoned Statue, Paris
1951
gelatin silver print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

John Szarkowski
Guaranty Building, Buffalo, New York
ca. 1951-52
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Minor White
Gene Cornelius, San Francisco
1951
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Minor White
Gene Cornelius, San Francisco
1951
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Minor White
Tom Stark, San Francisco
1952
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

John Deakin
Barbara Goalen
(fashion shot for British Vogue)
1951
gelatin silver print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

John Deakin
Ruins of Fascist Stadium near Rome
ca. 1952
gelatin silver print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

John Deakin
Francis Bacon
1952
gelatin silver print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Nathan Lerner
Untitled
ca. 1951
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Bob Lerner
Dancers, Grant Park, Chicago
1952
inkjet print
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Gordon Parks
Neighbors, Harlem, New York
1952
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Pirkle Jones
Sunset District and Pacific Ocean, San Francisco
1951
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Gisèle Freund
Frida Kahlo
1952
gelatin silver print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

That Other

They laughed, but no. You
don't remember that. 

What you think you remember –
it wasn't that.

Yes – you remember
some things. And
some things did
happen. Except not
that way.

And anyway, not
to you.

– Joyce Carol Oates (2020)