Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Appearing to Recede/Advance - I

Kerstin Bernhard
Olympic Stadium, Berlin
1934
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Werner Mantz
Staircase, Ursuline College, Georgplatz, Cologne
1928
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Eva Rubinstein
Doorways Perspective, Sabbioneta, Italy
1973
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Lennart af Petersens
Interior
ca. 1940
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Giovanni Volpato after Pietro Camporesi
Portrait of Raphael
over the Entrance to the Vatican Loggia

1772
engraving
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Herbert List
Colonnade, St Peter's Basilica, Rome
ca. 1950
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Gerardus Johannes Bos
Upper Corridor of a Leiden Mansion
ca. 1846
watercolor on paper
Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden

Johan Gørbitz
View through Open Window
ca. 1830
drawing
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Candida Höfer
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris V
1998
C-print
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

Fratelli Alinari
Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence
ca. 1880
albumen silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Gustave Caillebotte
Pont de L'Europe, Rennes
ca. 1876
oil on canvas (sketch)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes

Carl Gustaf Rosenberg
Terrace at Drottningholm Palace, outside Stockholm
ca. 1934
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Max Klinger
Line of Trees
1877
drawing
National Museum, Warsaw

Wright Morris
Telephone Pole and Hydrant
1937
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Armando (Herman Dirk van Dodeweerd)
The Fence
1995
oil on canvas
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal

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)