Erstwhile

Martin Schoeller
Lance Armstrong
2001
inkjet print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Annie Leibovitz
Lance Armstrong
1999
C-print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Anonymous Photographer
Julia Marlowe in Colinette
1899
gelatin silver print
Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC

Arnold Genthe
Julia Marlowe
ca. 1911
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Pach Brothers Studio (New York)
Julia Marlowe
ca. 1900
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Alfred J. Frueh
Julia Marlowe as Juliet
ca. 1910
gouache and ink on board
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Alfred J. Frueh
Julia Marlowe as Juliet
ca. 1910
hand-colored linocut
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Mark Seliger
Kurt Cobain
1993
platinum-palladium print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Jesse Frohman
Kurt Cobain
1993
inkjet print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Arnold Genthe
Greta Garbo
1925
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

George Hurrell
Greta Garbo
1930
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Clarence Sinclair Bull
Greta Garbo
1939
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Leo Fuchs
Paul Newman
1959
inkjet print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Ralph Schraivogel
Paul Newman at Filmpodium der Stadt, Zürich
2001
screenprint and lithograph (poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous Photographer
Isadora Duncan
ca. 1910
gelatin silver print (postcard)
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Arnold Genthe
The Roll Call
(Isadora Duncan)
1918
lithograph (poster)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

from In Memory of the Vertuous and Learned Lady Madre de Teresa 

that sought an early Martyrdome.

Since tis not to bee had at home, 

Sheel travell to a martyrdome. 

No home for her confesses shee,

But where shee may A martyr bee.

    Sheel to the Moores, and trade with them,

    For this unvalued Diadem,

    Shee offers them her dearest breath,

    With Christs name int in change for death.

    Sheel bargain with them, and will give

    Them God, and teach them how to live

    In him, or if they this denye,

    For him sheel teach them how to dye.

    So shall shee leave amongst them sowne,

    Her Lords blood, or at least her owne.

Farewell then all the world, adieu,

Teresa is no more for you:

Farewell all pleasures, sports and joyes,

Never till now esteemed toyes.

Farewell what ever deare may bee,

Mothers armes, or fathers knee.

Farewell home, and farwell home:

Shees for the Moores and Martyrdome.

    Sweet not so fast, Loe thy faire spouse,

    Whom thou seek'st with so swift vowes

    Calls thee back, and bids thee come,

    T' embrace a milder Martyrdome.

Blest powers forbid thy tender life,

Should bleed upon a barbarous knife.

Or some base hand have power to race,

Thy Breasts chast cabinet; and uncase

A soule kept there so sweet. O no,

Wises heaven will never have it so. 

Thou art Loves victim, and must dye

A death more misticall and high.

Into Loves hand then shalt let fall,

A still surviving funerall. 

– Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple (1648)