The Sea Monster

The Sea Monster ca.1496-1500

by Albrecht Dürer

Copper engraving

‘Marvellous’ Marvin

‘Marvellous’ Marvin Hagler, boxer, 1981

Photo: Anthony Barboza

Gelatin silver print

Nancy

Nancy

Danville, Virginia, 1969

Photo: Emmet Gowin

Gelatin silver print

Azerbaijan

Street Scene, Azerbaijan, 1979

Photo: Gilles Peress

Hell

Hell, ca.1590

by Johannes Sadeler

(Belgium, 1550–1600)

Engraving

Birdman

Birdman

Nazca, Peru, 1979

Photo: Marilyn Bridges

U.S. Corozal

U.S. Corozal (Dredger) Panama Canal, 1913

Photographer: Harris & Ewing

(Library of Congress)

Man Walking

Man walking in Wall Street area

New York City, 2001

Photo: Bruce Gilden

Marlene Dietrich

Publicity photo of Marlene Dietrich

for the film Shanghai Express, 1932

Photo: Don English

(Paramount Pictures)

Recalcitrance

Recalcitrance, Berlin, 1926

Photo: Roman Vishniac

Vincent’s Bedroom

Vincent’s bedroom in Arles, 1888

by Vincent van Gogh

Oil on canvas

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Panama Canal

Panama Canal excavation, 1913

The world's most celebrated short-cut marks its centennial this month.

Copy negative: Harris & Ewing, glass plate

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The Rhine

The Rhine near Boppard, Osterspey, 1938

Photo: August Sander

Gelatin silver print

Primrose Hill

Primrose Hill, 1971

by Frank Auerbach

Oil on board

Frank Auerbach

Frank Auerbach, 2003

Photo: Eamonn McCabe

C-type colour print

Horror Film Posters

1932

1931

1931

British Butcher

British Butcher, East London, ca.1965

Photo: Don McCullin

Lou Reed

Lou Reed performing at the Hop Farm Music Festival

Saturday the 2nd of July, 2011

Photo: Man Alive!

Harlem Fashion

Harlem Fashion Show

Harlem, New York, 1963

Photo: Leonard Freed

Gelatin silver print

Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson

College Park, Maryland, 2013

Photo: Susan Biddle

Portugal

Young Girl with Flowers

Portugal, 1954

Photo: Sabine Weiss

Hiroshima

Distorted steel-frame structure of Odamasa Store, Hiroshima

November 20, 1945

Photo: United States Strategic Bombing Survey

Asama Maru

Hand-painted Japanese Envelope, Asama Maru Sea-post, 1934

by Karl Lewis

City Ship Canal

The Buffalo River, city ship canal and flour mill elevators

ca.1911, Buffalo, N.Y.

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T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf

T.S.Eliot & Virginia Woolf, June 1924

Photo: Lady Ottoline Morrell

Vintage snapshot print

Dixie Belles

Dixie Belles, Central Louisiana, 1938

Photo: Theodore Fonville Winans

The New

The New – The Coming, Streetcar, Detroit, 1924

Photo: Knud Lonberg-Holm

Vintage gelatin silver print

Gun

Gun 1, New York, 1954

Photo: William Klein

Gelatin silver print

Invisible Man

Invisible man by Ralp Ellison, The Prologue, 1999-2000

Photo: Jeff Wall

Transparency in lightbox

Chicago

Chicago, 1950

Photo: Harry Callahan

Otto Dix

Otto Dix, Self-Portrait with Carnation, 1912

Oil and tempera on panel

Otto Dix, German painter, 1930

Photo: Hugo Erfurth