Cindy Sherman

Untitled (#132), 1984

Photo: Cindy Sherman

Water-Tower

Untitled (Water-tower), 1983

Photo: Bernd and Hilla Becher

Circular Segment

Circular Segment (Arc), 1928

Photo: František Drtikol

Carbon print

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Tengan Isobyôe and Yajin Ran, 1830-1845

by Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Colour woodcut on paper

Escort Kama

Escort Kama. Enugu, Nigeria, 2008

Photo: Pieter Hugo

Clowns

Circus clowns, (Cirque Pinder), 1949

Photo: Robert Doisneau

Two Movie Posters

The Asphalt Jungle, 1950

The Black Cat, 1950

The Caretaker

Donald Pleasence and playwright Harold Pinter

during rehearsals for The Caretaker, 1960.

Portrait of a Young Woman

Young woman under a trellace, 1888

Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia

Photo: A. Flegeltaub

Krazy Kat

Panel depicting now-classic brick-throwing scene from original art

for Krazy Kat Sunday comic strip appearing Nov. 3, 1935.

Art by George Herriman

Broken Glass

Self-Portrait, Zakopane [Broken Glass] 1910

by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Honoré Daumier

The artist Honoré Daumier, ca.1850

Photo: Victor Laisné or Lainé

Pressed Flower Navy Blue

Pressed Flower Navy Blue, 2013

by Ron Arad

Steel, glass, leather, plastic and vinyl

Tardigrade

Tardigrade in Moss

Image Credit & Copyright Nicole Ottawa & Oliver Meckes

(Eye of Science)

Smoke

The Cigarette, 1950

Photo: John Gutmann

Quarterdeck

Quarterdeck of HMS “Impregnable” 1852-1854

Photo: Linnaeus Tripe

Sled

Sled, 1969

by Joseph Beuys

Wooden sled, felt, fabric straps, flashlight, fat, oil paint, string

Vivian Maier

Vivian Maier, Self-Portrait,

New York, February 3, 1955

Gelatin silver print

Summer

The Lower East Side, New York City, 1937

Photo: Weegee

Gelatin silver print

Callanish Stone Circle

Callanish Stone Circle, Isle of Lewis,

Outer Hebrides, Scotland, 1972

Photo: Paul Caponigro

Gelatin silver print

Reclining Figure

Draped Reclining Figure, 1978

Roman travertine marble

by Henry Moore

Photo: The Henry Moore Foundation archive

The Chess Players

Marcel Duchamp and Raoul de Roussy de Sales

Playing Chess, 1925

Photo: Man Ray

Gelatin silver print

Underwater Swimmer

Underwater Swimmer, 1917

Photo: André Kertész

Gelatin silver print

Nature Study

Brothers & Sisters #3, 2009

Photo: Ruud van Empel

Cibachrome

Californian Girl

California, US, 1937

Photo: Dorothea Lange

Shaun Oliver

Shaun Oliver, Cape Town, 2011

Photo: Pieter Hugo

The Shell

The Shell (Conus Marmoreus), 1650

by Rembrandt

Etching, drypoint and burin on paper

Resurrection City

Police Mobilize to Clear Out Residents of Resurrection City

on the National Mall during the Poor People's Campaign, June 1968.

Photo: Morton Broffman

Solveig Dommartin

Solveig Dommartin in ‘Wings of Desire,’

a 1987 Wim Wenders film.

Photo Orion Pictures/Everett Collection

Colossi on the plain of Thebes

The Colossi on the plain of Thebes [Colossi of Memnon], 1862

Photo: Francis Bedford

Albumen print

Light

Young Man with a Candle, 1760

from 'Life-Sized Heads'

by Thomas Frye