Showing posts with label melodrama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label melodrama. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Steichen

Edward Steichen
Self Portrait with Brush and Palette
1902
gum bichromate print
Art Institute of Chicago


Edward Steichen
Midnight, Lake George
1904
gum bichromate over platinum print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Self Portrait with Camera
1917
platinum print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Triumph of the Egg
ca. 1921
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Miguel Covarrubias
1927
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Helen Morgan
1927
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Zasu Pitts
1928
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Tilly Losch
1930
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Rose Hobart
1931
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Josef von Sternberg
1931
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Lily Pons
ca. 1932
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Anna Stein
1932
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Lillian Gish in Within the Gates
1934
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Katherine Cornell
1934
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Dolores del Río
ca. 1934
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Elisabeth Bergner
1935
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Steichen
Fashion Shot
1935
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

The Porcupine, from De Histrice

Her longer head like a swines snowt doth show;
Bristles like hornes upon her forehead grow.
A fiery heat glows from her flaming eye;
Under her shaggy back the shape doth lye
As 'twere a whelpe: nature all Art hath try'd
In this small beast, so strangely fortified. 
A threatning wood o're all her body stands;
And stiff with Pikes the spectled stalks in bands
Grow to the warre; while under those doth rise
An other troope, girt with alternate dyes
Of severall hue; which while a blacke doth fill
The inward space, ends in a solid quill.
That lessning by degrees, doth in a while,
Take a quick point, and sharpen to a Pile. 
Nor doth her squadrons like the hedghogs stand
Fixt; but shee darts them forth, and at command
Farre off her members aimes; shot through the skie
From her shak'd side the Native Engines flie.
Sometimes retiring, Parthian like, shee'l wound
Her following foe; sometimes intrenching round
In battaile forme, marshalling all her flanks,
Shee'l clash her javelins to affright the ranks
Of her poore enemies: lineing every side
With spears, to which shee is her selfe allied.

– Claudian (AD 370-404), translated by Thomas Randolph (before 1635) 

Friday, February 21, 2025

Cindy Sherman - II

Cindy Sherman
Untitled #109
1982
C-print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

 
Cindy Sherman
Untitled #110
1982
C-print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Cindy Sherman
Untitled #112
1982
C-print
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Cindy Sherman
Untitled #123
1983
C-print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Cindy Sherman
Untitled #136
1984
C-print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Cindy Sherman
Untitled #146
1985
C-print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Cindy Sherman
Untitled #167
1986
C-print
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Cindy Sherman
Untitled #175
1987
C-print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Cindy Sherman
Untitled #264
1992
C-print
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Cindy Sherman
Untitled
1992
C-print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Cindy Sherman
Untitled #311 
1994
C-print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Cindy Sherman
Untitled #347
1999
gelatin silver print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Cindy Sherman
Untitled
2000
C-print
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Cindy Sherman
Untitled
2004
C-print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Cindy Sherman
Untitled #466
2008
C-print
Roberts Institute of Art, London

Cindy Sherman
Untitled #470
2008
C-print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Cindy Sherman
Untitled
2008
C-print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

from A Myth of Innocence

One summer she goes into the field as usual
stopping for a bit at the pond where she often
looks at herself, to see
if she detects any changes. She sees
the same person, the horrible mantle
of daughterliness still clinging to her.

The sun seems, in the water, very close.
That's my uncle, spying again, she thinks –
everything in nature is in some way her relative.
I am never alone, she thinks, 
turning the thought into a prayer. 
Then death appears, like the answer to a prayer.

No one understands anymore
how beautiful he was. But Persephone remembers.
Also that he embraced her, right there,
with her uncle watching. She remembers
sunlight flashing on his bare arms.

This is the last moment she remembers clearly.
Then the dark god bore her away.

– Louise Glück (2006)

Thursday, February 20, 2025

Cindy Sherman - I

Cindy Sherman
Untitled (Portrait)
1975
gelatin silver print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

 
Cindy Sherman
Untitled (Farmer's Daughter)
1975
gelatin silver print
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Cindy Sherman
(Secretary)
1978
gelatin silver print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Cindy Sherman
Scale Relationship Series: The Giant
1978
cut-out gelatin silver prints mounted on board
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Cindy Sherman
Untitled Film Still #9
1978
gelatin silver print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Cindy Sherman
Untitled Film Still #14
1978
gelatin silver print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Cindy Sherman
Untitled Film Still #15
1978
gelatin silver print
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Cindy Sherman
Untitled Film Still #22
1978
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Cindy Sherman
Untitled Film Still #23
1978
gelatin silver print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Cindy Sherman
Untitled Film Still #27
1979
gelatin silver print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Cindy Sherman
Untitled Film Still #29
1979
gelatin silver print
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Cindy Sherman
Untitled Film Still #33
1979
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Cindy Sherman
Untitled Film Still #45
1979
gelatin silver print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Cindy Sherman
Untitled #66
1980
C-print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Cindy Sherman
Untitled #70
1980
C-print
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Cindy Sherman
Untitled #76
1980
C-print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

from Persephone the Wanderer

In the first version, Persephone
is taken from her mother
and the goddess of the earth
punishes the earth – this is
consistent with what we know of human behavior,

that human beings take profound satisfaction
is doing harm, particularly
unconscious harm:

we may call this
negative creation.

Persephone's initial 
sojourn in hell continues to be
pawed over by scholars who dispute
the sensations of the virgin:

did she cooperate in her rape,
or was she drugged, violated against her will,
as happens so often now to modern girls.

As is well known, the return of the beloved
does not correct 
the loss of the beloved: Persephone

returns home 
stained with red juice like
a character in Hawthorne –

I am not certain I will
keep this word: is earth
"home" to Persephone? Is she at home, conceivably,
in the bed of the god? Is she
a born wanderer, in other words
an existential
replica of her own mother, less
hamstrung by ideas of causality?

You are allowed to like
no one, you know. The characters 
are not people.
They are aspects of a dilemma or conflict.

Three parts: just as the soul is divided,
ego, superego, id. Likewise

the three levels of the known world,
a kind of diagram that separates
heaven from earth from hell.

You must ask yourself:
where is it snowing?

White of forgetfulness,
of desecration –

It is snowing on earth; the cold wind says

Persephone is having sex in hell.
Unlike the rest of us, she doesn't know
what winter is, only that
she is what causes it. 

– Louise Glück (2006)