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

Thursday 25 December 2014

Cusco

Cusco Children, 1948
Photo: Irving Penn
Platinum-palladium print

A Merry Christmas to everyone!

Wednesday 24 December 2014

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
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

Friday 19 December 2014

H.M.S. Duke of Wellington

H.M.S. Duke of Wellington, 1854
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

Tuesday 16 December 2014

Monday 15 December 2014

Sunday 14 December 2014

King of the Zulus

King of the Zulus, 1984-1985
Acrylic on canvas, pastels and collages on photocopies

Jean-Michel Basquait, 1986
Photo: Dmitri Kasterine
Gelatin silver print

Saturday 13 December 2014

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

Sunday 7 December 2014

Friday 5 December 2014

Goldshlack Caddie

Goldshlack Caddie, South Philadelphia, 1973
Photo: Will Brown
Silver gelatin print

Thursday 4 December 2014

Tuesday 2 December 2014

Monday 1 December 2014

SS Lansdowne

SS Lansdowne crossing the Detroit River in winter, 1905
Photographer Unknown
(Library of Congress)