Friday, February 2, 2024

Visual Relics (1951-1957)

Consuelo Kanaga
Mark Rothko
1951
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

Max Dupain
At Newport
1952
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

John Deakin
Self Portrait
1952
bromide print
National Portrait Gallery, London

N. Jay Jaffee
Brooklyn Plaza
1953
selenium-toned gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

Vivian Cherry
3rd Avenue El
(14th Street Station, Window, Large Stove)

1955
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

Vivian Cherry
Watching the Tearing-Down of the 3rd Avenue El
1955
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

Vivian Cherry
Watching the Tearing-Down of the 3rd Avenue El
1955
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

Cecil Beaton
Ninette de Valois
1955
bromide print
National Portrait Gallery, London

Marion Wesp
Archipenko and Students at his Studio in Woodstock
ca. 1955
gelatin silver print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Peter Basch
Elizabeth Taylor
1955
bromide print
National Portrait Gallery, London

Chim (David Seymour)
Ingrid Bergman
with her son Robertino Rossellini

1956
gelatin silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Chim (David Seymour)
Audrey Hepburn
on the set of Funny Face, Paris

1956
gelatin silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Sidney and Abraham Waintrob
Raphael Soyer
1956
gelatin silver print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Sidney and Abraham Waintrob
Robert Motherwell
1957
gelatin silver print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Bruno Benini
Gretta Miers in Cocktail Dress and Cape
at the National Gallery of Victoria

1956
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Bruno Benini
Janet Dawson in Evening Gown and Wrap
1957
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

But though he longs to soften, soothe her sorrow
and turn aside her troubles with sweet words,
though groaning long and shaken in his mind
because of his great love, nevertheless
pious Aeneas carries out the gods'
instructions. Now he turns back to his fleet.

At this the Teucrians indeed fall to.
They launch their tall ships all along the beach;
they set their keels, well-smeared with pitch, afloat.
The crewmen, keen for flight, haul from the forest
boughs not yet stripped of leaves to serve as oars
and timbers still untrimmed.

– the Trojans prepare to depart, from Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)