The responsive eye | Collections | The Huntington

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Jay Eye See
Visual Materials
Image of an advertisement by Vacuum Oil Company in Rochester, New York. Foreground includes an image of a black trotting horse named Jay Eye See pulling a sulky and driver. The driver is shown sitting up straight in his seat and holding onto the reins of the horse as it trots forward with all legs in the air. Background includes images of trees and an image of another sulky driver and horse.
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Eye to eye : the camera remembers : portrait photographs
Rare Books
Photographer Renate Ponsold has been in a unique position to photograph some of the most influential people in the arts and letters of the past thirty years. Such artists as Duke Ellington, Sonia Delaunay, Erick Hawkins, Henry Moore, Edward Albee, Man Ray, Klaus Kinski, Frank Stella, and Virgil Thomson are captured at work and at leisure, thoughtful, laughing, grave, but always, thanks to Ponsolds gift, truly alive. Many of the photographs (109 of them are richly reproduced in duotone) are amplified by Ponsolds anecdotal reminiscences about the people portrayed. In addition, Eye to Eye includes an important essay by noted critic Dore Ashton.
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Birds-eye-view of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Visual Materials
Photographs made by Adam Clark Vroman, ca. 1892-1909, spanning various subjects, primarily his bookstore in Pasadena, California, and scenes from his travels. Of particular significance is Vroman's handwritten journal of a trip to see the Snake Dance at Walpi, Arizona, in 1895, written sequentially on the back of 19 mounted photographs. Vroman's traveling companions were Horatio N. Rust, Mrs. Thaddeus (Leontine) Lowe, and Charles J. Crandall, who are shown, along with Vroman, at pueblos, and traveling with supplies and wagons. There are also views of the Grand Canyon and the Petrified Forest. The California images include scenery and travelers in the San Gabriel Mountains, Mount Wilson, Mount Lowe and the Alpine Tavern, and travelers having a picnic; details of missions; historic adobes of Monterey; Rancho Guajome Adobe in San Diego County; Yosemite and one view of Indians living in Yosemite Valley. Locations depicted in other parts of the United States are: Manitou, Colorado; Oregon, Illinois; Niagara Falls; Grant's Tomb; a bird's-eye-view of Santa Fe, New Mexico; and other miscellaneous views. Vroman travelled to Japan in 1903 and 1909, and eight prints in the collection show Japanese men and women in traditional dress, as well as details of architecture. Vroman appears in a few photographs. There are several portraits of Pueblo Indian men, some identified in Vroman's captions.
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Boogie woogie
Rare Books
Casting a wry and satirical eye over New York's modern art world, this novel paints a subversive picture of the loves and lives of artists, dealers and wannabees in New York's cut-throat art scene.
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Bird's-eye view of a town
Visual Materials
A panoramic bird's-eye view of an unidentified town. There are hills in the background in the center and right, and mountains on the left.
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The anatomy of the human eye as illustrated by enlarged stereoscope photographs
Visual Materials
A complete anatomical ophthalmology teaching kit, The Anatomy of the Human Eye: As Illustrated by Enlarged Stereoscope Photographs, created by Oxford professor Arthur Thomson. The kit includes 67 stereoscopic photographs of human eye anatomy with accompanying printed text, an index to the photographs, and the original clamshell box.
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