Sunday 31 August 2014

Saturday 30 August 2014

‘Marvellous’ Marvin

‘Marvellous’ Marvin Hagler, boxer, 1981
Photo: Anthony Barboza
Gelatin silver print

Friday 29 August 2014

Nancy

Nancy
Danville, Virginia, 1969
Photo: Emmet Gowin
Gelatin silver print

Thursday 28 August 2014

Wednesday 27 August 2014

Hell

Hell, ca.1590
by Johannes Sadeler
(Belgium, 1550–1600)
Engraving

Tuesday 26 August 2014

Monday 25 August 2014

U.S. Corozal

U.S. Corozal (Dredger) Panama Canal, 1913
Photographer: Harris & Ewing
(Library of Congress)

Sunday 24 August 2014

Man Walking

Man walking in Wall Street area
New York City, 2001
Photo: Bruce Gilden

Saturday 23 August 2014

Marlene Dietrich

Publicity photo of Marlene Dietrich
for the film Shanghai Express, 1932
Photo: Don English
(Paramount Pictures)

Friday 22 August 2014

Thursday 21 August 2014

Vincent’s Bedroom

Vincent’s bedroom in Arles, 1888
by Vincent van Gogh
Oil on canvas
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Wednesday 20 August 2014

Panama Canal

Panama Canal excavation, 1913
The world's most celebrated short-cut marks its centennial this month.
Copy negative: Harris & Ewing, glass plate

Tuesday 19 August 2014

The Rhine

The Rhine near Boppard, Osterspey, 1938
Photo: August Sander
Gelatin silver print

Monday 18 August 2014

Friday 15 August 2014

Thursday 14 August 2014

Lou Reed

Lou Reed performing at the Hop Farm Music Festival
Saturday the 2nd of July, 2011
Photo: Man Alive!

Wednesday 13 August 2014

Harlem Fashion

Harlem Fashion Show
Harlem, New York, 1963
Photo: Leonard Freed
Gelatin silver print

Monday 11 August 2014

Sunday 10 August 2014

Hiroshima

Distorted steel-frame structure of Odamasa Store, Hiroshima
November 20, 1945
Photo: United States Strategic Bombing Survey

Saturday 9 August 2014

Asama Maru

Hand-painted Japanese Envelope, Asama Maru Sea-post, 1934
by Karl Lewis

Friday 8 August 2014

City Ship Canal

The Buffalo River, city ship canal and flour mill elevators
ca.1911, Buffalo, N.Y.

Thursday 7 August 2014

Wednesday 6 August 2014

Dixie Belles

Dixie Belles, Central Louisiana, 1938
Photo: Theodore Fonville Winans

Tuesday 5 August 2014

The New

The New – The Coming, Streetcar, Detroit, 1924
Photo: Knud Lonberg-Holm
Vintage gelatin silver print

Monday 4 August 2014

Gun

Gun 1, New York, 1954
Photo: William Klein
Gelatin silver print

Sunday 3 August 2014

Invisible Man

Invisible man by Ralp Ellison, The Prologue, 1999-2000
Photo: Jeff Wall
Transparency in lightbox

Friday 1 August 2014

Otto Dix

Otto Dix, Self-Portrait with Carnation, 1912
Oil and tempera on panel

Otto Dix, German painter, 1930
Photo: Hugo Erfurth