Thursday, February 15, 2024

Visual Relics (1996-1999)

D.W. Mellor
Pear and Orange
1996
gelatin silver print
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Martin Parr
Untitled
(series, British Food)
1996
C-print
Denver Art Museum

Andrew Moore
Fire Curtain
1996
C-print
Brooklyn Museum

Alexey Titarenko
Stranger, Saint Petersburg
1996
gelatin silver print
Denver Art Museum

Alexey Titarenko
Curved Frozen Canal, Saint Petersburg
1998
gelatin silver print
Denver Art Museum

Danny Lyon
James Dedios, Jicarilla Apache, Dulce, New Mexico
1997
gelatin silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

John Coplans
Untitled - Study for Self-Portrait
1997
nine digital prints
Yale University Art Gallery

Karl Lagerfeld
Model wearing Nimbus Hat
(Chanel haute-couture)

1997
gelatin silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Tom Hunter
Woman reading a Possession Order
1997
C-print
Yale University Art Gallery

John Pfahl
Sawdust Pile, Tioga Corners, PA
(series, Piles)
1997
C-print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Orit Raff
Untitled (Freezer #6)
1997
C-print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

David Stephenson
Dome, Passau, Germany
1997
C-print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

David Stephenson
Dome, San Lorenzo, Turin
1997
C-print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Sam Taylor-Johnson
Cry Laughing
1997
C-prints
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Hiroshi Sugimoto
Villa Savoye - Le Corbusier
1998
gelatin silver print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Andrea Modica
Human Being C11 Female 54 Years
1999
platinum-palladium print
Denver Art Museum

                            . . . racing to the forest,
Amata now tries greater scandal, spurs
to greater madness. She conceals her daughter
in leafy mountains, stealing from the Trojans
that marriage, holding off the wedding torches:
"Evoe Bacchus!" is her shriek and cry.
"For only you are worthy of the virgin;
for you she has taken up the supple thyrsus;
she circles you in dance, for you she saves
her sacred hair." The news flies on. Straightway
all of the matrons feel the same zeal, kindled
by Furies in their breasts, to seek new homes. 
And they desert their houses, bare their necks
and hair before the wind. Still others crowd
the skies with quivering cries; dressed in fawn hides,
they carry vine-bound spears. And at the center
Amata lifts a blazing firebrand
of pine and, raging, sings the wedding song
of Turnus and her daughter as she rolls
her bloodshot eyes; her cry is savage, sudden:
"O Latin mothers, listen now, wherever
you are: if any love still lives within
your pious hearts for sad Amata, if
care for a mother's rights still gnaws at you,
then loose the headbands on your hair, take to
these orgies with me." So Allecto drives
the queen to every side with Bacchus' goads
among the woods, the wilderness of beasts.

– Amata incites the Latin women, from Book VII of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)