Lewis Baltz

Lewis Baltz
Sausalito #14
1968
gelatin silver print
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Lewis Baltz
Tract House #1
1971
gelatin silver print
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Lewis Baltz
Tract House #5
1971
gelatin silver print
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Lewis Baltz
Tract House #7
1971
gelatin silver print
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Lewis Baltz
Tract House #20
1971
gelatin silver print
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Lewis Baltz
Public Places - Berkeley, California (#1A)
1972
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Lewis Baltz
Public Places - Claremont, California (#2A)
1973
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Lewis Baltz
Public Places - Houston, Texas
1973
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Lewis Baltz
Public Places - South El Monte
1973
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Lewis Baltz
Nevada 1 - Reno-Sparks looking South
1977
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Lewis Baltz
Nevada 3 - Hidden Valley looking Southwest
1977
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Lewis Baltz
Nevada 10 - Mill Street, Reno
1977
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Lewis Baltz
Nevada 11 - Lemmon Valley looking North
1977
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Lewis Baltz
Park City 31 - Snowflower Condominiums looking Southeast
1979
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Lewis Baltz
Park City 33 - Snowflower Condominiums looking East
1979
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Lewis Baltz
Park City 37 - Park Meadows Subdivision 3, Lot 39 looking Northwest
1979
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Lewis Baltz
Park City 89 - Park City interior 28
1979
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Dido's Lament, from The Heroides

While stormie seas grow calme,

    while custom tempers love:

How patiently mishaps to beare,

    I shall the practise prove.

If not, my life to spill

    with full intent I mind:

Of crueltie thou canst not long

    in me a subject find.

Would God thou didst but see

    mine Image as I wright:

I wright, and full against my breast

    thy naked sword is pight.*

And downe my cheeks along

    the teares do trickling fall:

Which by and by in stead of teares,

    ingrayne in blood I shall.

– Ovid (43 BC-AD 17), translated by George Turberville (1567)

*pight - past tense of pitch, here signifying thrust

Narrative Tendencies (1935-2005)

Olof Arvidson
Marching Band in Snowstorm
ca. 1935
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Josef Hegenbarth
On the Tram
ca. 1935
oil on board
Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden

Max Beckmann
The Removal of the Sphinxes
1945
oil on canvas
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe

Ferdinand Erfmann
Cloakroom
1954
oil on canvas
Dordrechts Museum

Edgar Klier
Production Meeting
1955
oil on canvas
Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden

Diane Arbus
Russian Midget Friends in a Living Room on 100th Street
New York City
1963
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Norman Parkinson
Untitled
ca. 1970
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Werner Tübke
Group of Workers
1972
tempera on panel
Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden

Lena Santesson-Carlsson
A Cat's Ascension
1974
oil on canvas
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Wolfgang Mattheuer
Jubilant Sisyphus and Followers
1976
oil on panel
Galerie Neue Meister (Albertinum), Dresden

Nan Goldin
Couple in Bed, Chicago
1977
C-print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Willibald Storn
Den Siste Lystmorder
1981
screenprint
Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum, Norway

Einar Sigstad
The Seven Men
1993
oil on canvas
Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Norway

Allen Sapp
Gathering
ca. 2000
acrylic on canvas
National Gallery of Canada. Ottawa

Peter Dahl
In 1939 Father came to Stockholm
2002
lithograph
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Neo Rauch
Kommen wir zum Nächsten
2005
oil on canvas
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

A Plaint of Flowers

Although, those years, we squandered 
grief upon our dead

as rich and wild as blood,

time was the healthy animal

infecting our every breath.

But now, my oldest friend,

expect from me no sorrow

beyond this formal plaint of flowers.

I have no heartbeat moment

left to lavish on any

death but mine. My pride

lies withered here like yours. I feel

your pockets for the penny 

you leave behind unspent.

Yet somewhere in this mortician's

scene your death and mine together,

should, like strong young men, stand weeping.

– Ernest Sandeen, from Children and Older Strangers (1962)

Chromogenic

Judith Affolter
Lovers #10
2020
C-print
Museum Folkwang, Essen

Darren Almond
Fullmoon @ Farm
2003
C-print
Museum Folkwang, Essen

Claudia Angelmaier
Uta
2013
C-print
Museum Folkwang, Essen

Peter Cornelius
Quai de Montebello, Paris
ca. 1957
C-print
Museum Folkwang, Essen

Thomas Demand
Detail II
1996
C-print
Museum Folkwang, Essen

Rineke Dijkstra
Ostend, Belgium, August 7, 1992
1992
C-print
Museum Folkwang, Essen

William Eggleston
Memphis
1965
C-print
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Ernst Haas
The Rose
1970
C-print
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Candida Höfer
TV Lounge, Scarborough
1980
C-print
Museum Folkwang, Essen

Martin Parr
Midsummer Madness
(series, Home and Abroad - Cost of Living)
1989
C-print
Museum Folkwang, Essen

Irving Penn
Red Apples, New York
1985
C-print
Museum Folkwang, Essen

Thomas Ruff
Machine 9046
2003
C-print
Museum Folkwang, Essen

Hajime Sawatari
Untitled
1973
C-print
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Wolfgang Tillmans
Central Line
2000
C-print
Museum Folkwang, Essen

Jeff Wall
Woman and her Doctor
1980-81
C-print
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Tobias Zielony
Corner
2003
C-print
Museum Folkwang, Essen

All Things can tempt Me

All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: 
One time it was a woman's face, or worse –
The seeming needs of my fool-driven land;
Now nothing but comes readier to the hand
Than this accustomed toil. When I was young,
I had not given a penny for song
Did not the poet sing it with such airs

That one believed he had a sword upstairs;

Yet would be now, could I but have my wish,
Colder and dumber and deafer than a fish.

– W.B. Yeats (1910)

Nineties Imagery

Candida Höfer
Bank, Oldenburg I
1998
C-print
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Alex Katz
Green Shadow #2
1998
oil on board
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Siegfried Anzinger
Frog
1994
distemper on canvas
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

David Salle
Camouflage Room
1999
oil and acrylic on canvas
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Philip Pearlstein
Kiddie-Car Plane, Airplane, and Models
1990
oil on canvas
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha

Nick Mourtzakis
Untitled Study
1999
drawing
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Robert Mangold
Curved Plane / Figure VI
1995
acrylic on canvas
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Miriam Cahn
Untitled
1995
oil on canvas
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Maria Beatriz
Red and Green Portrait
1992
painted paper collage
Museum Gouda

Peter Booth
River in Snowstorm with Drowned Figure
1995
casein paint and pastel on paper
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

James Gleeson
The Darkening Stage
1991
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Martin Kippenberger
Untitled
1991
oil on canvas
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Georges Mavroidis
Someone is Coming
1990
oil on canvas
National Gallery, Athens

Manuel Neri
Kneeling Figure
1991
painted plaster
Denver Art Museum

Zachar Sherman
Malevich
1993
oil on cardboard
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Jeff Wall
Insomnia
1994
transparency in lightbox
Hamburger Kunsthalle

The Sad Shepherd

There was a man whom Sorrow named his friend,
And he, of his high comrade Sorrow dreaming,

Went walking with slow steps along the gleaming

And humming sands, where windy surges wend:
And he called loudly to the stars to bend

From their pale thrones and comfort him, but they
Among themselves laugh on and sing alway:

And then the man whom Sorrow named his friend
Cried out, Dim sea, hear my most piteous story!
The sea swept on and cried her old cry still,
Rolling along in dreams from hill to hill.
He fled the persecution of her glory
And, in a far-off, gentle valley stopping,
Cried all his story to the dewdrops glistening.

But naught they heard, for they are always listening,
The dewdrops, for the sound of their own dropping.

And then the man whom Sorrow named his friend
Sought once again the shore, and found a shell,
And thought, I will my heavy story tell
Till my own words, re-echoing, shall send
Their sadness through a hollow, pearly heart;

And my own tale again for me shall sing,
And my own whispering words be comforting,

And lo! my ancient burden may depart.

Then he sang softly nigh the pearly rim;
But the sad dweller by the sea-ways lone

Changed all he sang to inarticulate moan
Among her wildering whirls, forgetting him. 

– W.B. Yeats (1889)