World War I
To argue: there is no past
“Vienna — hungry child.” George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014713460/. Restored in Photoshop. The photograph is undated in the Library’s record, but it was taken in the aftermath of World War I. The hunger, of course, continues. We are not to be sated.
Modernism: a week before the Armistice, she experiences an intimation of the Edward Gorey body
Hands across the sea
The public are advised to familiarise
To Arcadia
Source: “Liberty Loans. Official Liberty Bond car, and tank,” Washington, 1918. Harris & Ewing Collection, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016869097/. Post-processed in Photoshop.
Fine adjustment: fierce engines of destruction
Sources: New-York Tribune, 1 March 1918, page 9, and “Mrs. A. Ladenburg,” George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014706437/. Images post-processed in Photoshop.
