Barn Owl

A barn owl (Tyto alba) just about to pose

on the falconer's hand, 18 October, 2014

Photo: Carlos Delgado

At The Races

Three Women at the Races, ca.1885

by Edgar Degas

Pastel on paper

Fire Eater

Fire Eater at a Carnival - Palisades Park, N.J. 1957

Photo: Diane Arbus

Gelatin silver print

Hastings

Yachts Starting - Hastings, England, ca.1895

Photochrom Colour Print

(Library of Congress)

New Brighton

Girl Serving Ice Cream, New Brighton, 1983

Photo: Martin Parr

Archival Pigment Print

Desert Hell

Desert Hell, Kuwait, 1991

Photo: Sebastião Salgado

Gelatin silver print

The Good Reputation Sleeping

La Buena Fama Durmiendo

(The Good Reputation Sleeping) 1939

Photo: Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Gelatin silver print

Pluto

Pluto's Sputnik Planum

Image Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins U.APL, Southwest Research Inst.

(Astronomy Picture of the Day)

Norman Mailer

American Author, Norman Mailer, 1964

Photo: Arnold Newman

Gelatin silver print

Urville

Urville, 2006

(Urville-Nacqueville, Normandy)

Photo: Jane and Louise Wilson

Gelatin silver print

Joseph Beuys

German Artist, Joseph Beuys, 1970

Photo: Robert Lebeck

Gelatin silver print

Women Fencing

Two women fencing, June 16, 1891

Unidentified Photographer

Tintype

Joseph Slade

Joseph Slade, 1816

by Ammi Phillips

Oil on canvas

Porto Portugal

Unloading Salt - Porto, Portugal, 1939

Photo: Nicolás Muller

German Photography

Widow and her Sons, ca.1921

Photo: August Sander

Gelatin silver print on paper

White Masks

Two Men in White Masks, Cuzco, Peru, 1948

Photo: Irving Penn

Gelatin Silver Print

Mighty Waltzer

Mighty Waltzer

Elephant and Castle, London, 1952

Photo: Colin O'Brien

Karen & Lesa

Untitled, 1974

(Karen Chatham, left, with the artist’s cousin Lesa Aldridge,

in Memphis, Tennessee)

Photo: William Eggleston

Dye transfer print

The Anarchist Beaulieu

Henry, Felix, Camille, Beaulieu. 23 years old, born on

30/11/70 in Paris Ve. Accountant. Anarchist. 23/05/94

Photo: Alphonse Bertillon, 1894

Albumen silver print from glass negative

Bonnie & Clyde

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow

Posing in front of a 1932 Ford V-8 automobile, ca.1933

Photo by one of the  Barrow gang

Charles Lindbergh

This file photo taken on May 21, 1927 shows US aviator Charles Lindbergh

posing in front of his monoplane Spirit of St-Louis at Paris-Le Bourget,

after having achieved the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight

New York - Paris Le Bourget.  STRINGER / AFP.    (Artdaily)

Le Chat Noir

Tournée du Chat Noir, 1896

Poster Art by Théophile Steinlen

Françoise Sagan

Françoise Sagan at home, Paris, 1954

Photo: Sabine Weiss

Gelatin silver print

Dali Atomicus

Dali Atomicus, Salvador Dalí, 1948

Photo: Philippe Halsman

Gelatin silver print

Rescue Exercise

A rescue exercise by the Royal Canadian Air Force

and the Canadian Coast Guard, 30 May 2012

Photo: Letartean

Repulsion

Catherine Deneuve in Repulsion, 1965

Directed by Roman Polanski

Portrait of George Dyer

Portrait of George Dyer Riding a Bicycle, 1966

by Francis Bacon

Oil on canvas

New York

Lower Manhattan

From foot of Brooklyn Bridge, April 4, 1932

Large-format acetate negative

Photo: Gottscho-Schleisner

(Shorpy)

Frank Auerbach

Frank Auerbach, Self-Portrait, 1958

Charcoal and paper collage

Albert Camus

Albert Camus, Paris, 1945

Photo: Henri Cartier-Bresson