The Rouen Ferry 1899-1940

Le pont transbordeur de Rouen

Postcard ca.1900

Le pont transbordeur de Rouen, 1903

Photo: L.L. Paris

Figures in a Wasteland

Mother and Child, Hiroshima, 1945

Four months after the blast.

Photo: Alfred Eisenstaedt

Samuel Reshevsky

Chess prodigy Samuel Reshevsky, aged 8,

defeating several chess masters in France, 1920.

Photo: Kadel & Herbert

Uptown Manhattan

William Burroughs, 1953

Photograph & Note by Allen Ginsberg

Gelatin silver print

"We went uptown to look at Mayan Codices at Museum of Natural History & Metropolitan Museum of Art to view Carlo Crivelli's greenhued Christ-face with crown of thorns stuck symmetric in his skull—here Egyptian wing William Burroughs with a brother Sphinx, Fall 1953 Manhattan."

First Air Mail Stamps

Manila, Philippines, 1947

Lincoln Boulevard

Anja Rubik, 2012

Photo: Glen Luchford

Jenny Saville

Figure 11.23

1997

by Jenny Saville

Oil on canvas

Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Berlin, 1980

Photo: Alfred Eisenstaedt

Fassbinder was a German film director, screenwriter, and actor.

Drought Refugees in California

Dust Bowl migrants photographed by Dorothea Lange

for the Farm Security Administration, Feb.1936.

Rose Floral Bowl

A fine Chinese Coral-Ground Famille Rose Floral Bowl

Yongzheng Mark and Period, (1723-1735)

Movie Still

Sarah Miles with Dirk Bogarde in The Servant, 1963

The Servant is Harold Pinter's 1963 film adaptation of a 1948 novelette

by Robin Maugham. A British production directed by Joseph Losey.

Ship's Crew

Assembled crew on the bridge ca.1900

(Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia)

In the foreground, to the right is a 1 inch 4-barrel

Nordenfelt Mk III Machine-Gun.

Leipzig Portrait

Portrait of a young woman

Germany, ca.1900

Photo: A. & F. Naumann

Movie Poster

Fritz Lang's Metropolis, 1926

(Library of Congress)

Brockton Fair

Brockton Fair, Massachusetts, 1933

Leslie Jones Collection

(Boston Public Library)

Hoola-Hooping

Helen and Her Hoola-Hoop, 1986

Seacoal Camp, Lynemouth, Northumberland, England

Photo: Chris Killip

Gelatin silver print

Andy Warhol

Joseph Beuys, 1980

by Andy Warhol

Silkscreen

Goya

Witches in the Air, 1797-98

by Francisco de Goya

Oil on canvas

Air Race '34

Royal Dutch Airlines 1934

Independence

'Those who fought for our independence.'

Revista de Revistas magazine, 1934

Cover Art: Ernesto "el Chango" García Cabral

Beuys in America

"I like America and America likes me" 1974

(Performance Art)

by Joseph Beuys

Beuys

Joseph Beuys, 1967

German Artist

Photo: Liselotte Strelow

Observation

Looking into the mouth of a big fish

Florida, 1956

Photo: Alfred Eisenstaedt

Tartar Or Manchu Female

Example of coiffure worn by Tartar Or Manchu Female

Peking, Pechili Province, China, 1869

Photo: John Thomson

Artaud

Portrait of Antonin Artaud, 1947

Photo: Jean-François Cholley

La Maladresse sexuelle de dieu, 1946

(The sexual clumsiness of God)

by Antonin Artaud

Johnnie Billington

Johnnie Billington, 2012

Lambert, Quitman County, Mississippi, USA

From The photo essay "The children of King Cotton"

Photo: Henning Bode

Munch

 

Self-Portrait by Edvard Munch, 1886

Oil on canvas

Edwardian Portrait

Young Edwardian Woman

Chicago '33

World's Fair Chicago, 1933

Swedish Family Portrait

Portrait of a young family

Sweden ca.1900

Photo: K. Stein, Hernösand