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| Linda Butler Silverware, Genova 1992 gelatin silver print Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Linda Butler Blowing Curtain near La Spezia 1993 gelatin silver print Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Raghubir Singh Pavement Mirror Shop, Howrah, West Bengal 1991 C-print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Raghubir Singh Crawford Market, Mumbai, Maharashtra 1993 C-print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Peter McGough and David McDermott The Tick-Tock of a Watch heard at the Extremity of a Pair of Tongs 1991 palladium print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Duane Michals Untitled 1991 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Rineke Dijkstra Hilton Head Island, S.C., U.S.A. 1992 C-print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Philip-Lorca diCorcia Major Tom, Kansas City, Kansas, $20 1992 C-print Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Abelardo Morell Camera Obscura Image Houses across the Street in our Bedroom, Quincy MA 1991 gelatin silver print Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Abelardo Morell Paper Bag 1992 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Béatrice Helg Théâtres de la Lumière VIII 1992 C-print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Barbara Kasten Birth of the World 1991 C-print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Barbara Bosworth National Champion Weeping Willow, Michigan 1992 gelatin silver print Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Barbara Bosworth National Champion Sitka Spruce, Oregon 1993 gelatin silver print Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Sebastião Salgado Kuwait 1991 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Gilles Peress Bosnia 1993 gelatin silver print Minneapolis Institute of Art |
Just at the center of the city stood
a thickly shaded wood; this was the place
where, when they landed, the Phoenicians first –
hurled there by whirlwind and by wave – dug up
an omen that Queen Juno had pointed out:
the head of a fierce stallion. This had meant
the nation's easy wealth and fame in war
throughout the ages. Here Sidonian Dido
was building a stupendous shrine for Juno,
enriched with gifts and with the goddess' statue,
where flights of steps led up to brazen thresholds;
the architraves were set on posts of brass;
the grating hinges of the doors were brass.
Within the grove, the sights – so strange to him –
have, for the first time, stilled Aeneas' fear;
have, for the first time, stilled Aeneas' fear;
here he first dared to hope he had found shelter,
to trust more surely in his shattered fortunes.
For while he waited for the queen, he studied
everything in that huge sanctuary,
marveling at a city rich enough
for such a temple, at the handiwork
of rival artists, at their skillful tasks.
He sees the wars of Troy set out in order:
the battles famous now through all the world,
the sons of Atreus and of Priam, and
Achilles, savage enemy to both.
He halted. As he wept, he cried: "Achates,
where on this earth is there a land, a place
that does not know our sorrows? Look! There is Priam!
Here, too, the honorable finds its due
and there are tears for passing things; here, too
things mortal touch the mind. Forget your fears;
this fame will bring you some deliverance."
He speaks. With many tears and sighs he feeds
He speaks. With many tears and sighs he feeds
his soul on what is nothing but a picture.
– Juno's temple in Carthage, from Book I of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)