The End of the Trail
Photographic Fin-de-Siècle Self-Portrait Show

December 20, 1999 - January 15, 2000

To celebrate a quarter of a century of showing, buying, and selling photography, Andrew Smith Gallery invited its most distinguished artists to provide an imaginative “self-portrait” of any subject, in any medium, that relates to the millennium past.




Because There's Nothing Else ©1999 Thomas Barrow


Fiery Red Maple, Kentucky ©1996 Christopher Burkett


Cornucopia, Cushing, Maine ©1999 Paul Caponigro

Self-Portrait with Inka © 1999 Judy Chicago


From The 1999 Self-Portrait Series © 1999 Van Deren Coke


Around The Corner © 1999 Gus Foster


New York City © 1999 Lee Friedlander


Santa Fe © 1995 Lee Friedlander


Self Portrait © 1986 Flor Garduno


Self-Portrait with Natural Resources, Costa Rica © 1999 Betty Hahn


Self-Portrait (with collage) © 1999 Michael Hudock


John Paul Caponigro © 1999 John Paul Caponigro


Wasicu Witko © 1993 David Michael Kennedy


Vanitas (Rolf & Will) © 1999 Rolf Koppel


Lozoya De La Muerte, Self Portrait © 1999 Oscar Lozoya


Counting the Rings on Cherry Logs while waiting for Norfolk & Western trains at Fitzgerald Lumber Co., Buena Vista, Virginia
©1956 O. Winston Link


I'll Answer Your Phone (after Ed Curtis) , © 1999 Skeet McAuley

 


Self-Portrait Asleep in the Tomb of Mereruka at Sakkara © Duane Michals


Self-Portrait, Albuquerque © 1999 Miguel Gandert


Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco © 1999 Duane Monczewski


Despues El Sexto Sol (After The Sixth Sun) © 1999 Delilah Montoya


Antes El Sexto Sol (Before the Sixth Sun) © 1999 Delilah Montoya


Self-portrait at Solar II © 1999 Joan Myers


(Wall of Green-painted Cards, Patrick Playing Solitaire in Front), 1994 © Patrick Nagatani


El Nadador/Nacimiento, 1993
© Patrick Nagatani


Fin de Siecle: Looking at you, looking at me

© 1999 Anne Noggle


Self Portrait © 1999 Barbara Van Cleve


Cui Bono (Who Benefits?)
Curators routinely commandeer ideas from scholars and reconstruct images from artists without acknowledging sources fully. This work wonders "cui bono" from this kind ofconspicuous curatorial embezzlement of concepts and icons. © 1999 Joseph Traugott


Three Letters from the City: The St. Petersburg Poems 1968- 1998, 3rd letter, section 9,
with Russian translation by Julia Kunina.

Have I arrived too late,
again too late
for all there is to know,
to do, to love and to forgive,
have I then come too late
to end my life
with needful care, sterling intelligence?
Well, but allow the life to suffer
if need be-not the word.
It would be better if the two of them
could live unheeded
within some pastoral, post revolution
in a successful world.
In this however (romanticism if need be)
there seems to have to be a choice.
It is my honor to choose the word alone.
Let that survive.

© 1999 Nathaniel Tarn