Thursday, February 1, 2024

Visual Relics (1947-1951)

Frederick Sommer
Untitled
1947
gelatin silver print
Denver Art Museum

Clarence John Laughlin
Receding Rectangles
1947
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Gjon Mili
Alicia Alonso and Igor Youskevitch
1947
gelatin silver print
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

W. Eugene Smith
Singer Robert Merrill disheveled and unhappy
after making a poor recording

(series, Recording Artists)
1947
gelatin silver print
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

W. Eugene Smith
Jean Pearson, New York
(series, Theatre Girl)
1949
gelatin silver print
Indianapolis Museum of Art

Jerome Liebling
Union Square, NYC
1948
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Jerome Liebling
Larry Hirsch and his Painting, Camp Taconic
1948
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Vilem Kriz
Paris
1949
gelatin silver print
Denver Art Museum

Louis Faurer
Women in front of Billboard, New York
1949
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Fritz Henle
Central Park South
ca. 1950
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

Ben Rose
Dancer
ca. 1950
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

Robert Doisneau
Fernand Léger
ca. 1950
gelatin silver print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

N. Jay Jaffee
Furriers
1950
gelatin silver print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

N. Jay Jaffee
Woman with Paper Bags (Blake Avenue)
1951
selenium-toned gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

N. Jay Jaffee
Two Women on Subway
1951
gelatin silver print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Irving Penn
Portrait of actor Richard Burton
1950
bromide print
National Portrait Gallery, London

"Go then, before the winds, to Italy.
Seek out your kingdom overseas; indeed,
if there be pious powers still, I hope
that you will drink your torments to the lees
among sea rocks and, drowning, often cry
the name of Dido. Then, though absent, I
shall hunt you down with blackened firebrands;
and when chill death divides my soul and body,
a Shade, I shall be present everywhere.
Depraved, you then will pay your penalties.
And I shall hear of it, and that report
will come to me below, among the Shadows."

– Dido curses Aeneas, from Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)