Shulman's Market

Shulman's Market at N and Union Streets SW, Washington

4x5 Kodachrome transparency

Photo: Louise Rosskam

(Shorpy)

Kafka

Franz Kafka on Prague’s Old Town Square around 1920

Photograph: Sovfoto/UIG via Getty Images

"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."  Franz Kafka

Bowie & Burroughs

British singer, songwriter and actor David Bowie posing for a photograph with American novelist William Burroughs for an interview published in Rolling Stone magazine in February 28, 1974.

Photograph: Terry O’Neill

Santiago Chile

An activist dressed as a nun is taken into custody by police officers after she and other protesters had placed a pro-abortion banner above a road near Pope Francis’s expected route, before the pontiff’s arrival in Santiago.  Posted Sat 20 Jan, 2018. (theGuardian)

Photograph: Victor R Caivano/AP.

Ollas Per Persson

Ollas Per Persson, (Born in 1866)

Almo, Dalarna, Sweden

Photo: Einar Erici - 1935

Ollas Per Persson

Almo, Dalarna, Sweden

Photo: Einar Erici - ca.1930

Beat

Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac

Photograph: Carolyn Cassady - 1952

Henrietta

Portrait of Henrietta Moraes, 1963

by Francis Bacon

Oil on canvas

Napoleon Sarony

American photographer Napoleon Sarony

(self-portrait, n/d)

(Broadway Photographs)

The Jersey Shore

The Jersey Shore, ca.1901

8x10 inch dry plate glass negative

(Detroit Publishing Company)

(Shorpy)

Living Dangerously

New Brighton, Merseyside, ca.1984

Photograph: Martin Parr - Magnum

Mississippi

Untitled - Biloxi, Mississippi, 1974

Photo: William Eggleston

Dye transfer print

Arthur Miller

American playwright Arthur Miller

in his New York study in 1959

Photograph: Associated Press

Lee J. Cobb as Willy and Mildred Dunnock as Linda in the original production

of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, 1949.  Photo: Fred Fehl

(Fred Fehl Theater Collection, Harry Ransom Center)

'Growing Stars'

Stapelia variegata, Asclepiadaceae

Photograph: Albert Renger-Patzsch - 1923

The mushroom Myriostoma coliforme

Bella Vista, Santa Cruz, Bolivia - 13 February 2008

Photograph: Diana Marcela Rocabado Reyes

Modigliani

Amedeo Modigliani in his studio, ca.1915

Photograph: Paul Guillaume

Man in a Hat, 1915

by Amedeo Modigliani

Oil on canvas

Miss Mattie Minetree

Miss Mattie Minetree

Photograph: C.M. Bell portrait studio

in Washington, D.C. ca.1892.

5 x 7 in. glass plate negative

(Library of Congress)

The Falls

Post Falls, Idaho, 25 August, 1974

Photograph: Stephen Shore

Chromogenic print

Jane Morris

Jane Morris, posed by Rossetti. 1865

Photograph: John R Parsons

Albumen print

The families of William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, photographed by Frederick Hollyer in the garden at The Grange, Burne-Jones's home in Fulham. Left to right: Edward Jones (Burne-Jones's father), Margaret Burne-Jones, Edward Burne-Jones, Philip Burne-Jones, Georgiana Burne-Jones,

May Morris, William Morris, Jane Morris, and Jenny Morris.

Platinotype photograph, 1874.

Rossetti

The Day Dream

by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1880

(The sitter is Jane Morris)

Oil on canvas

Portrait of Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Photo: Lewis Carroll - 7 October, 1863

Albumen print

Reclining Figures

Large Four Piece Reclining Figure

Bronze - Executed in 1972-73

by Henry Moore

River God, ca.1526/7

by Michelangelo Buonarroti

Clay, earth, sand, plant and vegetable fibre, and

casein model built around an iron wire core.

Later interventions: plaster & iron mesh.

(Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, Florence)

Air Force Target

Air Force Target Grid Building 04

Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, 2014

Photograph: David Maisel

Archival Pigment Print

(Inside the Dugway Proving Ground)

Paperback Writer

A Man Called Spade by Dashiell Hammett

Artwork by Robert Stanley - 1950

Turn of the Table By Jonathan Stagge

Artwork by Rudolph Belarski - ca.1950

Birmingham Alabama

20th Street, Birmingham, Alabama, ca.1906

8x10 inch dry plate glass negative

(Detroit Publishing Company)

(Shorpy)

Bette Davis

Publicity still of Bette Davis in 'Of Human Bondage'

Directed by John Cromwell, 1934

Photo: Warner Bros. Studio

(Watch a clip from the movie)

USS Essex

The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Essex (CVA-9) takes spray over the bow while steaming in heavy seas. Essex, with assigned Carrier Air Group 10 (CVG-10), was deployed to the Mediterranean Sea from 7 August 1959 to 26 February 1960. A Grumman TF-1 Trader COD plane is readied for launch from the angled flight deck. Several Douglas AD-6 and AD-5W Skyraider and Douglas F4D-1 Skyrays are parked behind the island. An AD-5 (BuNo 132463) assigned to United States Fleet Activities Naples, Italy, is parked on the elevator. 12 January 1960.

(Official U.S. Navy photo)  (Wikipedia)

John Thomson

Street Doctor, London 1877

Photo: John Thomson

Two Manchu soldiers with John Thomson

Amoy, Fukien province, China,1871

Photograph by John Thomson

Western Mosul, Iraq

A woman injured in a mortar attack is treated by medics in a field clinic as

Iraqi forces battle with Islamic State militants, in western Mosul, Iraq.

March 2, 2017. Photograph: Zohra Bensemra.  (theGuardian)

(Zohra Bensemra: Photographer of the Year)

Trollhättan Canal

Lower gate line in Trollhättan canal,

Sweden, probably in the 1880's.

Photo: Robert Dahllöf

Saul Steinberg

American cartoonist and illustrator, Saul Steinberg, 1946

Photograph: Henri Cartier-Bresson

Untitled, from the Mask Series with Saul Steinberg

Photograph: Inge Morath, 1961-1962

(Courtesy of Danziger Gallery)

Portrait 1942

Portrait of a young woman.

Southington, Connecticut. May 1942.

Medium format nitrate negative by Fenno Jacobs.

For the Office of War Information.

(Shorpy)

Prospectors

Portrait of an Unidentified Pair of Prospectors

Ferrotype, ca.1860

Unknown Photographer

Looking Good

Natchez, Mississippi, 1947

Photograph: Henri Cartier-Bresson

(To Fly Free in Space)

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