Sunday, February 4, 2024

Visual Relics (1962-1967)

Andreas Feininger
European Beech
1962
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Daniel Farber
Sugar Maple
1962
dye transfer print
Yale University Art Gallery

Sidney and Abraham Waintrob
Patrick Heron
1962
gelatin silver print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Sidney Waintrob
Sonia Delaunay
1965
gelatin silver print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Hollis Frampton
James Rosenquist
1963
gelatin silver print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Philippe Halsman
Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman
1963
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

David Plowden
Abandoned Railroad Depot, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
1964
gelatin silver print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

David Moore
Bar Billiards, Lancelin, Western Australia
1963
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Ralph Gibson
Untitled
1964
gelatin silver print
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Lee Friedlander
England
1964
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Athol Shmith
Judy Garland
1964
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Lewis Morley
Siân Phillips and her daughter Kate O'Toole
ca. 1965
gelatin silver print
Yale Center for British Art

Lewis Morley
Joe Orton Tattoo
1965
gelatin silver print
Yale Center for British Art

Nat Finkelstein
Untitled (Andy Warhol)
ca. 1966
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

Andreas Feininger
Tree Trunk
1966
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Franz Bader
Bark I
1967
C-print
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Aeneas on the high stern now was set 
to leave; he tasted sleep; all things were ready. 
And in his sleep a vision of the god
returned to him with that same countenance –
resembling Mercury in everything:
his voice and coloring and yellow hair
and all his handsome body, a young man's –
and seemed to bring a warning once again:
"You, goddess-born, how can you lie asleep
at such a crisis? Madman, can't you see
the threats around you, can't you hear the breath
of kind west winds? She conjures injuries 
and awful crimes, she means to die, she stirs
the shifting surge of restless anger. Why
not flee this land headlong, while there is time?
You soon will see the waters churned by wreckage,
ferocious torches blaze, and beaches flame,
if morning finds you lingering on this coast."

– Aeneas admonished to hasten beyond Dido's reach, from Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)