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| David Anderson Roof, 195 Broadway 1981 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Thomas Struth Crosby Street, Soho, New York 1978 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giuseppe Valeriani Arched Entrance above Flight of Steps before 1771 drawing British Museum |
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| Nicola Vianelli Pescheria, Rome 1836 drawing British Museum |
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| Eugène Atget Terre-plein du Pont Neuf, matinée d'hiver 1925 albumen silver print from glass negative Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giambattista Tiepolo Upper Story of Stable Block by Palladio at Villa Valmarana near Vicenza 1757 drawing British Museum |
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| Canaletto The Molo and Palazzo Ducale, Venice 1730 oil on canvas Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina |
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| Richard Phené Spiers Pompeian House built in Paris by Prince Jérôme-Napoléon 1860 (demolished in 1891) watercolor on paper British Museum |
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| Alexandre Benois Hermitage at Tsarskoye Selo ca. 1900 watercolor on paper Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington, Vermont |
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| Edouard Baldus Arc antique à Orange 1853 salted paper print from paper negative Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| attributed to Mauro Antonio Tesi Classical Façade before 1766 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Madoka Takagi 59th Street & 1st Avenue, New York 1989 platinum-palladium print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Ilse Bing Kloster Reichenau am Bodensee 1929 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Randolph Schwabe Warwick Square, London EC4 1942 drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Louis-Gustave Taraval Design for Neoclassical Building before 1794 ink and wash on paper Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Jennifer Tauber Waste Transfer Station 2005 C-print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| William Henry Fox Talbot The Boulevards at Paris 1843 salted paper print from paper negative Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Vanitas Vanitatum
All the flowers of the spring
Meet to perfume our burying;
These have but their growing prime,
And man does flourish but his time:
Survey our progress from our birth –
We are set, we grow, we turn to earth.
Courts adieu, and all delights,
All bewitching appetites!
Sweetest breath and clearest eye
Like perfumes go out and die;
And consequently this is done
As shadows wait upon the sun.
Vain the ambition of kings
Who seek by trophies and dead things
To leave a living name behind,
And weave but nets to catch the wind.
– John Webster, from The Devil's Law Case (ca. 1610)