Evelyn Hofer Anna and Emma The Royal Hibernian Hotel, Dublin 1966 gelatin silver print Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
Evelyn Hofer Gravediggers, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin 1966 gelatin silver print Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
Evelyn Hofer Mods, Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin 1966 gelatin silver print Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
Evelyn Hofer Phoenix Park on a Sunday, Dublin 1966 dye transfer print Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
Evelyn Hofer 8th Street, Washington DC 1966 dye transfer print Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
Eliot Porter Giant Opuntia Cactus, Galapagos Islands 1966 dye transfer print Princeton University Art Museum |
Aldo Sessa Victoire de Montesquiou 1966 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Aldo Sessa Victoire de Montesquiou 1966 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Howard Bond Procession 1967 gelatin silver print Cleveland Museum of Art |
Joel Snyder Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois 1966 platinotype print Art Institute of Chicago |
Wynn Bullock The Shore 1966 gelatin silver print Minneapolis Institute of Art |
Danny Lyon Andy at the Stoplight, Cicero, Illinois ca. 1966 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
Danny Lyon 55 Fulton Street 1967 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
Algimantas Kezys Union Station, Chicago 1966 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
Jonas Dovydenas Young Man ca. 1967 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
Jonas Dovydenas Chicago 1966 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
Man in the Open Air
Look how in heat waves the folding metal
chairs go slack in the sun
chairs go slack in the sun
and their withered arms settle
waiting like ritual tongs to hold your body.
How their legs puncture the lawn
and the grass lies back, creeps on.
Think how the comfrey and mint
will grow and cleave
till it's time to bolt.
Look how the cabbages swelled
and now it is time to loosen carefully,
to give the feeder roots a severing jolt
with a twist of each head on its stalk
with a twist of each head on its stalk
detaining green
increase in holding patterns
until it is time to take them in.
Think how you, supple
on long afternoons, have lain in the sun
or stood up
glad not to be of use, not to be held.
– Stephen Sandy (1984)