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Wednesday, 31 December 2014
Deep-Sea Diver
Deep-Sea Diver (C), New York 1951
Photo:
Irving Penn
Tuesday, 30 December 2014
The Eating House
The Eating House, 1903
by
William Strang
Etching on paper
Monday, 29 December 2014
The American Friend
Bruno Ganz and Dennis Hopper in The American Friend
West Germany/France 1977
Directed by
Wim Wenders
Sunday, 28 December 2014
Baking Bread
Baking bread.
This native bread is a major item of Navajo diet, 1948
Photo: Leonard McCombe
Saturday, 27 December 2014
Christmas Eve
Nuit de Noël, (Christmas Eve) 1962
Photo:
Malick Sidibé
Friday, 26 December 2014
Come to Tokyo
Come to Tokyo, 1930s
Thursday, 25 December 2014
Cusco
Cusco
Children, 1948
Photo: Irving Penn
Platinum-palladium print
A Merry Christmas to everyone!
Wednesday, 24 December 2014
Head #23
Head #23, 2001
Photo:
Philip Lorca diCorcia
Fujicolor Crystal Archive print
Tuesday, 23 December 2014
Margate Revisited
Margate Harbour, England, ca.1895
Photochrom print
(Detroit Publishing Co.)
Monday, 22 December 2014
‘Los howl’d’
‘Los howl’d’ from The First Book of Urizen, 1796
by
William Blake
Colour-printed relief etching with hand colouring
Sunday, 21 December 2014
Dolls of Fear
From the Muñecas del miedo series
[Dolls of Fear], Paris 1939
Photo: Kati Horna
Gelatin silver print
Saturday, 20 December 2014
Your hour has come!
Before I Hang, 1940
Dr. Cyclops, 1940
Friday, 19 December 2014
H.M.S. Duke of Wellington
H.M.S. Duke of Wellington, 1854
Photo:
Linnaeus Tripe
Albumen silver from a waxed paper negative
Thursday, 18 December 2014
See in the Dark
Painting to See in the Dark (Version 1). 1961.
Installation view with the artist, Paintings & Drawings by
Yoko Ono
,
Photograph by
George Maciunas
AG Gallery, New York
Wednesday, 17 December 2014
Via Panair
First Air mail Flight Around the World, 1937
Tuesday, 16 December 2014
Police Station Lodgings
Police Station Lodgings, West 47th St., ca.1888
Photo:
Jacob Riis
Monday, 15 December 2014
Plaster Head
Plaster Head, ca.1947
Photo:
Josef Sudek
Gelatin silver paper
Sunday, 14 December 2014
King of the Zulus
King of the Zulus, 1984-1985
by
Jean Michel Basquiat
Acrylic on canvas, pastels and collages on photocopies
Jean-Michel Basquait, 1986
Photo: Dmitri Kasterine
Gelatin silver print
Saturday, 13 December 2014
Baltimore Trolley
On the trolley in Baltimore, 1943
Photo: Marjory Collins
(
www.shorpy.com
)
Friday, 12 December 2014
Carcass of a Cow
Photograph of the dried carcass of a cow suspended in a tree,
Queensland, Australia.
Taken by artist
Sidney Nolan
during the 1952 Queensland drought.
Thursday, 11 December 2014
Lifeboat #2
Launch of Lifeboat, Margate, Kent, England
Postcard, ca.1910
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Lifeboat
Lifeboat, 1985
Art by
Jeff Koons
Tuesday, 9 December 2014
Marilyn
Marilyn Monroe
, ca.1940
Photobooth
Monday, 8 December 2014
Stenkyrka Church
Stenkyrka Church, Gotland, Sweden, 1916
Photo:
Einar Erici
Sunday, 7 December 2014
Occasional Magic
Occasional Magic (Sprouting Potato) 1931
Photo:
Brassaï
Gelatin silver paper
Saturday, 6 December 2014
Waiting for the Bus
Waiting for the Bus, Taiwan, 1983
Photo:
Chang Chao-Tang
Friday, 5 December 2014
Goldshlack Caddie
Goldshlack Caddie, South Philadelphia, 1973
Photo: Will Brown
Silver gelatin print
Thursday, 4 December 2014
Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne, ca.1861
Unknown photographer
Wednesday, 3 December 2014
Still Life by Cézanne
Fruit and Ginger Pot, 1890-93
by
Paul Cézanne
Oil on canvas
Tuesday, 2 December 2014
Sword Swallower
Albino Sword Swallower at a Carnival,
Maryland, 1970
Photo:
Diane Arbus
Monday, 1 December 2014
SS Lansdowne
SS Lansdowne
crossing the Detroit River in winter, 1905
Photographer Unknown
(Library of Congress)
Sunday, 30 November 2014
Space Shuttle
Space Shuttle and Space Station
Photographed Together, 2011
NASA
Saturday, 29 November 2014
The Moulin Rouge
The
Moulin Rouge
, Paris, 1923
Photo:
Jules Gervais Courtellemont
Friday, 28 November 2014
Charles Hay Cameron
Charles Hay Cameron, 1864
husband of Julia Margaret Cameron
Photograph by
Julia Margaret Cameron
Albumen print
Thursday, 27 November 2014
Switzerland
Railway - Stansstad to Engelberg
Switzerland, ca.1920
Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Marceline Day
Actress
Marceline Day
, 1926
(Bain News Service)
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
London After Midnight
London After Midnight
(MGM, 1927)
Monday, 24 November 2014
Ship Breaking Yard
Ship Breaking Yard, Karachi, 1985
Photo:
Steve McCurry
Sunday, 23 November 2014
Gas Processing
Gas processing system towers, Dollarhide Plant,
Pure Oil Company,
Jal, New Mexico, 1951
Photo: Robert Yarnall Richie
Saturday, 22 November 2014
Jerome Witkin
Vincent and his Dream Girl, 2012
by
Jerome Witkin
Oil on Canvas, Diptych
Friday, 21 November 2014
Édith Piaf
Édith Piaf
, 1940
Photo: Jean Gabriel Séruzier
Thursday, 20 November 2014
Truck Stop
Truck Stop, Utah, 1974
Photo:
Pete Turner
Dye transfer print
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
Antonio Ordóñez
Matador
Antonio Ordóñez
, San Sebastian, Spain, 1966
Photo:
Lucien Clergue
Tuesday, 18 November 2014
Peter and Paul Fortress
Peter and Paul Fortress
, Leningrad, 1973
Photo: Henri Cartier-Bresson
Monday, 17 November 2014
Hamburg
German Postcard
Hamburg, 1907
Sunday, 16 November 2014
The Parish Constable
The Parish Constable, August Ländin,
Kårsta, Uppland, Sweden, 1930s
Photo:
Einar Erici
Saturday, 15 November 2014
The Earthbound Human
Der erdgebundene Mensch
[The Earthbound Human] 1910
Photo:
August Sander
Gelatin silver print
Friday, 14 November 2014
Florence
Florence Fisher, 1872
Photo:
Julia Margaret Cameron
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