Showing posts with label gardens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gardens. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White
Bottles designed by John Vassos
ca. 1930
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington DC


Margaret Bourke-White
Iron Puddler, Stalingrad
1930
gelatin silver print
Detroit Institute of Arts

Margaret Bourke-White
U.S.S. Airship Akron
1931
gelatin silver print
(custom frame constructed of "Duralumin")
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Margaret Bourke-White
Hugh Cooper
1931
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Margaret Bourke-White
Studio designed for Bourke-White by John Vassos
1932
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Margaret Bourke-White
Self Portrait
ca. 1933
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Margaret Bourke-White
Sierra Madres
1935
gelatin silver print
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio

Margaret Bourke-White
Boulder Dam under Construction
1935
gelatin silver print
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio

Margaret Bourke-White
Fort Peck Dam, Montana
(used for the inaugural cover of Life magazine)
1936
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Margaret Bourke-White
World's Highest Standard of Living
1937
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Margaret Bourke-White
Tulips in the Rudolph Wurlitzer Garden
ca. 1938
gelatin silver print
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio

Philippe Halsman
Margaret Bourke-White
1943
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Margaret Bourke-White
Vultures of Calcutta, India
1946
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Margaret Bourke-White
Industrial Landscape, Pittsburgh
1955
gelatin silver print
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Margaret Bourke-White
Industrial Landscape, Pittsburgh
1955
gelatin silver print
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Margaret Bourke-White
American Iron and Steel Works, Pittsburgh
ca. 1955-56
gelatin silver print
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Margaret Bourke-White
Industrial Landscape, Pittsburgh
1956
gelatin silver print
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

from Nux

I the poor nuttree, joyning to the way,
Offend not any: and yet every day
By idle travailers, that passe along
Each stone or cudgel at my pate is flong.
Theeves led to hanging oft are stond, they say,
When peoples furie brooks not lawes delay.
I nere offend, unlesse it seeme a crime
To yeeld my owner yeerely fruit in time. 

Though by the sunne I often scorched be
Thers none with watring that refresheth me.
But when my nut with ripenesse cleaves her hull,
Then comes the Pole and threats my crowne to pull. 
    My pulpe for second course men use to have,
A thriftie housewife doth my choice nuts save.
These are the tooles of boyes-play, Cockupall,
Cobnut, and Five holes trundling like a ball:
And Castle-nut, where one on three doth sit,
He winnes the fourth, that any one can hit:
Another downe a steepe set board doth throw,
And winnes by hitting any nut below.  

– Ovid (43 BC-AD 17), translated by Thomas Hoy (1682)

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Frances Benjamin Johnston

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Mrs Grover Cleveland with Wives of the Cleveland Cabinet
ca. 1897
albumen silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC


Frances Benjamin Johnston
Frances Folsom Cleveland
(Mrs Grover Cleveland)

1897
albumen silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Frances Folsom Cleveland
(Mrs Grover Cleveland)

1897
albumen silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Leonard Wood
1899
albumen silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Self Portrait with Elbert Hubbard and James Pond
1900
platinum print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Students making Barrel Furniture at Tuskegee Institute
1902
albumen silver print
Milwaukee Art Museum

Gertrude Käsebier
Frances Benjamin Johnston
1905
platinum print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1917
platinum print
Princeton University Art Museum

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Brandon (Burrowsville, Virginia)
ca. 1925
hand-colored lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Brandon (Burrowsville, Virginia)
ca. 1925
hand-colored lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Brandon (Burrowsville, Virginia)
ca. 1925
hand-colored lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Brandon (Burrowsville, Virginia)
ca. 1925
hand-colored lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Reveille (Richmond, Virginia)
ca. 1925
hand-colored lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Reveille (Richmond, Virginia)
ca. 1925
hand-colored lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Shirley Plantation (Charles City, Virginia)
ca. 1925
hand-colored lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Sunken Garden (Montpelier Station, Virginia)
ca. 1925
hand-colored lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Frances Benjamin Johnston
Woodbury Forest (Louisa County, Virginia)
ca. 1925
hand-colored lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

from The Amores

In summers heate and mid-time of the day
To rest my limbes upon a bed I lay,
One window shut, the other open stood,
Which gave such light, as twincles in a wood,
Like twilight glimps at setting of the Sunne
Or night being past, and yet not day begunne.
Such light to shamefast maidens must be showne,
Where they may sort, and seem to be unknowne.
Then came Corinna in a long loose gowne,
Her white neck hid with tresses hanging downe:
Resembling fayre Semiramis going to bed
Or Layis of a thousand lovers spread.

– Ovid (43 BC-AD 17), translated by Christopher Marlowe (before 1593)

Sunday, August 3, 2025

Fratelli Alinari

Fratelli Alinari
Giardino di Boboli, Florence
ca. 1914
lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC


Fratelli Alinari
Giardino di Boboli, Florence
ca. 1914
lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Fratelli Alinari
Giardino di Boboli, Florence
ca. 1914
lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Fratelli Alinari
Giardino di Boboli, Florence
ca. 1914
lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Fratelli Alinari
Villa Lante, Florence
ca. 1914
lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Fratelli Alinari
Villa Lante, Florence
ca. 1914
lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Fratelli Alinari
Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati
ca. 1914
lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Fratelli Alinari
Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati
ca. 1914
lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Fratelli Alinari
Villa Falconieri, Frascati
ca. 1914
lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Fratelli Alinari
Villa Torlonia, Frascati
ca. 1914
lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Fratelli Alinari
Borghese Gardens, Rome
ca. 1914
lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Fratelli Alinari
Villa Doria-Pamphilij, Rome
ca. 1914
lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Fratelli Alinari
Villa d'Este, Tivoli
ca. 1914
lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Fratelli Alinari
Villa d'Este, Tivoli
ca. 1914
lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Fratelli Alinari
Villa d'Este, Tivoli
ca. 1914
lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Fratelli Alinari
Villa d'Este, Tivoli
ca. 1914
lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Fratelli Alinari
Villa d'Este, Tivoli
ca. 1914
lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

from The Art of Poetry

A mark of success in this painful discrimination
Is to find that the way you have used a familiar word
Has made it glitter like new. When what you are saying
Is so obscure as to need a novel expression,
It will be time enough for brilliant verbal inventions
 – And I do not suppose that that will be very often.
But new-made words can flower, if they come from good roots
And are not allowed to run wild. For why should the reader
Allow to Sterne what he will refuse to Joyce?
And why should I not add something, however little,
To the language which Chaucer and Shakespeare made more pointed
By noticing something no one had noticed before?
It has always been right and it will always be right
To use the word that bears the stamp of the time.
As woodlands lose their leaf at the fall of the year,
The old words go in turn, while the young
Flower and grow strong. For we are promised to death,
And all our things. It may come, sometimes, in a gale
Which bursts inland to give the sea a rest
And a fen that bore nothing except the plashing of oars
May survive to grow good corn for a neighbouring town.
Elsewhere the crops may go and the river pass
To produce more crops after that: for nothing will stand,
Certainly not the repute and pleasure of words.
Many words will come back which seemed to be lost
And many now much in use will be lost again
For nothing but use determines the fate of words.

– Horace (65-8 BC), translated by C.H. Sisson (1974)