Sunday, June 30, 2024

Scrutinized Figures

Bettina Rheims
Martine
1989
gelatin silver print
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Irving Penn
Gypsy Rose Lee
1948
gelatin silver print
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

John O'Neal
Torsos from the Bonham Project
1992
gelatin silver prints
Princeton University Art Museum

Joan Moss
Mother and Child
Carol Blatcher and her mother Faye, Skokie, Illinois

1981
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Lee Miller
Pablo Picasso, Cannes
1958
gelatin silver print
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Tilo Rausch
Untitled
1992
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Harold Cazneaux
Life Class, Sydney Art School
1931
gelatin silver print
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Keast Burke
Labour
ca. 1940
gelatin silver print
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

William Carrick
Abacus Seller, Saint Petersburg
ca. 1860
albumen print
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Julia Margaret Cameron
Deathbed Study of Adeline Grace Dogstoun
1872
albumen print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous Photographer (circle of Thomas Eakins)
Three Models supporting a Fourth
1886
albumen print
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Eikoh Hosoe
Embrace no. 59
ca. 1969-71
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Lyndal Walker
Carl-Henrik and I with Painter's Trolley and Teal Drapery
2015
pigment print mounted on framed mirror
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Eva Vermandel
Brothers Heath
2006
inkjet print
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Nadav Kander
Portrait of cyclist David Millar
2011
pigment print on aluminum
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Julien Vallou de Villeneuve
Standing Model in Tragic Pose
ca. 1853
salted paper print
Princeton University Art Museum

from History 

It is the unregarded congruence:
The boy who cries 'Bull'
Because he is leading one
Past the antique cart
Which the winter's advent
Will convert to firewood.
He does not mark it
Nor will he mark its absence –
Himself, the guardian
Of a continuity he cannot see
And – grant him means –
Would injure readily . . .

– Charles Tomlinson (1963)