Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Visual Relics (1973-1975)

Rennie Ellis
Mick Jagger
1973
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Christine Godden
Elliot
1973
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Nathan Lerner
Eye 7
1973
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

William E. Crawford
Crown Street in New Haven
1973
platinum print
Yale University Art Gallery

Debora Hunter
Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
1974
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Lucas Samaras
Photo-Transformation
1974
dye diffusion print
Denver Art Museum

Stephen Wickham
Vanity of Vanities (Self Portrait)
1974
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Laurie Wilson
Untitled
ca. 1975
C-print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Ralph Steiner
Untitled
ca. 1975
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Jessica Raimi
Hector's Suicide
1975
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Carol Jerrems
Mark and Flappers
1975
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Ponch Hawkes
Helen at Falconer Street
ca. 1975
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Hollis Frampton and Marion Faller
Zucchini Squash Encountering Sawhorse
(series, Vegetable Locomotion)
1975
gelatin silver print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Hollis Frampton and Marion Faller
Savoy Cabbage Flying
(series, Vegetable Locomotion)
1975
gelatin silver print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Hollis Frampton and Marion Faller
Sunflower Reclining
(series, Vegetable Locomotion)
1975
gelatin silver print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

William Bailey
Still Life with Eggs, Candlestick and Bowl
1975
collotype
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Among them stands a giant shaded elm,
a tree with spreading boughs and aged arms;
they say that is the home of empty Dreams
that cling, below, to every leaf. And more,
so many monstrous shapes of savage beasts
are stabled there: Centaurs and double-bodied
Scyllas; the hundred-handed Briareus;
Chimaera armed with flames; Gorgons and Harpies;
And Geryon, the shade that wears three bodies.
And here Aeneas, shaken suddenly
by terror, grips his sword; he offers naked
steel and opposes those who come. Had not
his companion warned him they were only
thin lives that glide without a body in
the hollow semblance of a form, he would
in vain have torn the shadows with his blade.

– the Cumaean Sybil brings Aeneas to the Underworld, from Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)