I’m Not the Only Oneis inspired by our current emotional, psychological, and practical transformation. It is an invitation to you, our circle of artists and visitors, both real and imagined. I’m not the only one wrestling with a sense of isolation, but what has surprised and sustained me in this time has been the connections in the face of the distances, social and otherwise.
There is a Portuguese word, saudade [pron:saa·deidz], that does not exist in English. More nuanced than melancholy or bittersweet, saudade is a subtle yet enduring desire for something other than the present. Deep inside this word is the sense that the thing for which one longs may never be had again, while acknowledging that longing for the past would detract from the anticipation for the future. Saudade is likely what most of us are feeling right about now.
-Frish Brandt
Alec SothFacebook, Menlo Park, California
2013
pigment print, 44 x 57 inches (framed) [112 x 145 cm]
Katy GrannanAlexa
2018
pigment print, 58-1/4 x 44-1/4 inches (framed) [148 x 112.4 cm]
Hiroshi SugimotoMK2 Biblothéque, Paris
2005
gelatin silver print, 18-7/8 x 22-3/4 inches (sheet) [47.9 x 57.8 cm]
Diane ArbusLady in a Roominghouse Parlor, Albion, N.Y.
1963
gelatin silver print, 20 x 16 inches (sheet) [50.8 x 40.6 cm]
Alec SothWilliam Eggleston, Memphis, TN, 2000
2018
chromogenic print, 33 x 41 inches (framed) [83.8 x 104.1 cm]
Richard LearoydFemale nude with mirror
2016
unique Ilfochrome photograph, 80-3/8 x 59-7/8 inches (framed) [204.2 x 152.1 cm]
Alec SothPark Hyatt Hotel, Tokyo (Mirror)
2015
pigment print, 42 x 32 (framed) [107 x 82 cm]
Diane ArbusKiss from “Baby Doll,” N.Y.C. 1956
gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 inches (sheet) [27.9 x 35.6 cm]
Lee FriedlanderGalax, Virginia
1962
gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 inches (sheet) [27.9 x 35.6 cm]
Lee FriedlanderNew York City, 1963
gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 inches (sheet) [27.9 x 35.6 cm]
Johnnie ChatmanSelf Portrait, John Ford Point, 2018
2019
pigment print, 37 x 53 inches (framed) [94 x 135 cm]
Sophie CallePatrick X, Sixteenth Sleeper
1979
8 gelatin silver prints & 1 text panel, 19 x 24-3/4 inches (overall, approximately) [48.3 x 62.9 cm]
Peter HujarChuck Gretsch (with Cigar)
1981
gelatin-silver print, 20 x 16 inches (sheet) [50.8 x 40.6 cm]
Peter HujarDavid Wojnarowicz
1981 / printed later
pigment print, 20 x 16 inches (sheet) [50.8 x 40.6 cm]
Wardell MilanEdward
2019
cut and pasted printed paper, 14-3/4 x 12-3/4 inches (framed) [37.5 x 32.4 cm]
Nan GoldinFrench Chris on the convertible, NYC
1979
pigment print, 31-3/4 x 46-7/8 inches (framed) [80.7 x 119.1 cm]
Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled
1963
gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]
Janet Cardiff & George Bures MillerI Can’t Remember (World Turning)
2010
telephone, solid state playback device, 6 x 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches [15.24 x 22.23 x 13.97 cm]
Richard MisrachBoy Scouts and Fremont’s Pyramid, Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, Nevada
1991
pigment print, 61 x 77 inches (framed) [155 x 195.6 cm]
“To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweet as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know anything so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing — the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one’s hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again. Though we dream and hardly know it, longing, like an angel, fosters us, smooths our hair, and brings us wild strawberries.”