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Kerstin Bernhard Olympic Stadium, Berlin 1934 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Werner Mantz Staircase, Ursuline College, Georgplatz, Cologne 1928 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Eva Rubinstein Doorways Perspective, Sabbioneta, Italy 1973 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Lennart af Petersens Interior ca. 1940 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Giovanni Volpato after Pietro Camporesi Portrait of Raphael over the Entrance to the Vatican Loggia 1772 engraving Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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Herbert List Colonnade, St Peter's Basilica, Rome ca. 1950 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Gerardus Johannes Bos Upper Corridor of a Leiden Mansion ca. 1846 watercolor on paper Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden |
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Johan Gørbitz View through Open Window ca. 1830 drawing Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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Candida Höfer Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris V 1998 C-print Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
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Fratelli Alinari Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence ca. 1880 albumen silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Gustave Caillebotte Pont de L'Europe, Rennes ca. 1876 oil on canvas (sketch) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes |
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Carl Gustaf Rosenberg Terrace at Drottningholm Palace, outside Stockholm ca. 1934 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Max Klinger Line of Trees 1877 drawing National Museum, Warsaw |
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Wright Morris Telephone Pole and Hydrant 1937 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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Armando (Herman Dirk van Dodeweerd) The Fence 1995 oil on canvas Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
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Carl Curman Landbyska Verket, Stockholm ca. 1890 cyanotype Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
from Last Things
There came the last day of my father's breathing
when there was nothing, nothing to do except
to suffer time which suffered to a close.
I stared across his bed with rage seething
through me at how the trees he'd planted slept
outside our window permitting the fact of snows
to settle cold upon them and around
them. Stupid they stood while the ashes of desolation,
falling, reached and never reached the ground.
Anger as thick as blood was my consolation
for the storm of silence bleaching breath and space
since nothing strong and tall out there had grace
enough to toss defiance or even to bend
before the beginning of memory and its end.
– Ernest Sandeen, from Children and Older Strangers (1962)