Monday, February 5, 2024

Visual Relics (1969-1973)

Rollie McKenna
W.H. Auden
1969
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Stephen Salmieri
Coney Island (Snow)
1969
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

Stephen Salmieri
Coney Island (Shades)
1969
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

Antony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowden
Maggie Smith
1970
bromide print
National Portrait Gallery, London

Jeanloup Sieff
Dress by Yves Saint-Laurent
(fashion shot for French Vogue)
1970
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Philip Trager
House, San Francisco
1971
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Helen Levitt
New York
1971
C-print
Yale University Art Gallery

Mimmo Jodice
Madonna dell'Arco Procession, Naples
ca. 1972
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Eric Kroll
Balanchine
1972
gelatin silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Gjon Mili
George Balanchine, Curtain Call, New York State Theater
1972
gelatin silver print
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Les Gray
Looking Up
(series, Assignment Rome)
1972
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Ralph Gibson
Sailor
1972
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Ralph Gibson
Untitled
1972
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Henri Cartier-Bresson
Francis Bacon, London
ca. 1972
gelatin silver print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Robert Doisneau
Cabine Dior
1972
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Van Deren Coke
Ambrotype of My Grandfather
1973
photogravure
Denver Art Museum

But when black Night rode high upon her chariot
and took possession of the heavens, then
down from the sky the image of his father
Anchises seemed to glide. His sudden words:
"Son, once more dear to me than life when life
was mine; son, battered by the fates of Troy!
Jove, who drove off the fire from your fleet
and from high heaven pitied you at last,
has sent me here.  Obey the excellent
advice old Nautes gives; and take your chosen 
young men, your bravest hearts, to Italy.
In Latium you must subdue a people
of steel, a race that has its rugged ways.
Yet first draw near the lower halls of Dis
and through the lands of deep Avernus seek,
my son, a meeting with me. I am not
among sad Shades, in impious Tartarus;
my home is in Elysium, among
the gracious gatherings of the pious ones.
You shall be shown the way there by the chaste
Sibyl – but after offering blood from many
black cattle. You will learn of all your race
and of the walls that have been given you.
And now farewell. Damp Night wheels on her way;
fierce Dawn, with panting stallions, breathes on me."

– Anchises summons Aeneas to the Underworld, from Book V of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)