Images from Houdini: Art and Magic
Sepia photograph of Houdini (second from left) and Theodore Roosevelt (center) aboard the SS Imperator, June 23, 1914. Credit: The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
- Sepia photograph of Houdini (second from left) and Theodore Roosevelt (center) aboard the SS Imperator, June 23, 1914.
- Houdini with Jennie the Elephant performing at the Hippodrome, NY, 1918. Other magicians made rabbits disappear, but Houdini could make an elephant disappear.
- Jay Disbrow's lithograph of Houdini emulator "The Amazing Randi, The Man No Jail Can Hold!" 1976
- Seymour Chwast's lithograph "The Sensational Houdini Water Torture Escape with Doug Henning," 1974
- "How I Get Out of My Rope Ties" by Harry Houdini, The Ladies Home Journal, 1918
- Hear Houdini, The World-Famed Mystifier, "Can The Dead Speak To the Living?", 1920s lithograph.
- Do Spirits Return? Houdini Says No and Proves It, 1926 lithograph
- Spirit Expose, Houdini and wife Bess demonstrating switch of blank slates for slates with prewritten messages, with unidentified person assisting, circa 1926 photographs
- Whitney Bedford's "Houdini (Upside Down)," 2007, ink and oil on unprimed paper
- Untitled painting by Jane Hammond, 1990, oil on linen.
- Untitled painting by Jane Hammond, 1991-92, oil on linen.
- Tim Lee's "Upside-Down water Torture Chamber, Harry Houdini," 1913, 2004, photograph. Note that this self-portrait is indeed upside down.
- Vik Muniz, "Houdini Pantheon (from Pictures of Ink)," 2000, Digital C-print, AP3
- Ikuo Nakamura, "Materialization," 2009, hologram and metal.
- Deborah Oropalllo, "Escape Artist," 1993, oil on canvas.
- Deborah Oropalllo, "Magician's Code," 1990, oil on canvas.
- Still from video of Sara Greenberger Rafferty's performance piece "De/Feat," 2005, in which the artist places herself in a straitjacket unassisted (the reverse of Houdini who escaped from strait jackets).
- Allen Ruppersberg, "MIssing You," 1972, five magic tables, four books, one vintage color photo.
- Raymond Pettibon, "No Title (The Desire to)," 2009, pen, ink, and gouache on paper.
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