The Marx Brothers

The Marx Brothers, 1946

Photo: Yousuf Karsh

Gelatin silver print

Mr. Kahlo & His Daughters

Guillermo Kahlo, Self-portrait, 1920

Gelatin-bromide silver on paper

Cristina, Matilde, Adriana, and Frida Kahlo, 1916

Photograph: Guillermo Kalho

Gelatin-bromide silver on paper

In Search of Lost Time

Promenade and Grand Salon,

Trouville, Normandy, France. ca.1895

Photochrom Colour Print

De Gracy & Dalton

Mug shot of De Gracy (sic) and Edward Dalton. Details unknown.
Central Police Station, Sydney, around 1920.

Special Photograph no. 129. A cropped print of this photograph appears in a police photo book from the 1920s, annotated in pencil "magsmen", with no further information offered.

Magsman: A confidence trickster.
A person who likes telling stories; a raconteur.

Mr and Mrs Andersson

Mr. and Mrs. Andersson, 1930s

(The verger Andersson, born in 1858)

Skederid, Uppland, Sweden

Photo: Einar Erici

Joann Crane

Joann Crane with portrait

of her father Abraham Crane, 1862

Unidentified Photographer

World War 2

A young English boy sits reading outside the ruins of a bookshop that suffered Luftwaffe bomb damage during the London Blitz.  8th October, 1940.  AP Photo

U.S. Navy Lt. Lawrence Britton on lookout duty, aboard the USS Nassau, nearly two years after the surprise strike by the Japanese in 1941. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, USA. October 1943.

Jacob Riis' New York

Baxter Street Alley in Mulberry Bend

New York City, ca.1888

Photograph: Jacob Riis

(Library of Congress)

Mullen’s Alley, Cherry Hill

New York City, 1888

Photograph: Jacob Riis

Man with Lathe

Lathe, Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon, 1949

Photograph: Jakob Tuggener

Gelatin silver print

Duster 340

Detroit Auto Show series, ca.1975

Photograph: Bill Rauhauser

Family

Family on Lawn, Vancouver, 1959

Photograph: Fred Herzog

Kodachrome

(theGuardian)

Head of an Oba

Head of an Oba, Nigeria, Court of Benin,

Edo people, 16th century. Brass

London Pub

Lord Nelson Public House

Shoreditch, London, 2010

Photo: Dougie Wallace

Big Ladies

Club Allegro Fortissimo, Paris, 1990

Photograph: William Klein

Gelatin silver print

Corner Bookstore

Old Corner Bookstore (first brick building in Boston)

8 x 10 in. glass plate negative ca.1900

(Detroit Publishing Co.)

Old Corner Bookstore, Boston, ca.1900 (Detail)

(Detroit Publishing Co.)

Shipping

The Steerage, 1907

Photo: Alfred Stieglitz

Gelatin silver print

Fading Light, ca.1922

(Circular Quay from Dawes Point, Sydney)

Photograph: Cecil Bostock

Paris, Texas

Harry Dean Stanton, 'Paris, Texas' 1984

Directed by Wim Wenders

Man with Pistols

Untitled (Man with pistols) ca.1860

Sixth-plate daguerreotype, delicately tinted

Unknown photographer

(Star Size Comparison 2)

Little Italy

Little Italy, Manhattan, 1952

(Feast of San Gennaro)

Photo: Alfred Gescheidt

Water!

New York City, 1977

Photograph: Lou Bernstein

Hoboken, New Jersey, 1963

Photograph: Charles Pratt

French Open 2018

Paris, France

Spain’s Rafael Nadal plays a backhand return to Italy’s Simone Bolelli during their men’s singles first round match of the 2018 French Open tennis tournament. Photo: Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty Images. (theGuardian)

Pop Art

Roy Lichtenstein In his studio

at 36 West 26th Street, New York, 1964

Photograph: Ken Heyman

Girl with Hair Ribbon

by Roy Lichtenstein, 1965

Oil and magma on canvas

Stanwyck & Davis

Barbara Stanwyck

Signed publicity photo, circa 1930s

Unidentified photographer

Bette Davis, Studio portrait 1940s

Photo: Alexander Kahle for RKO Radio

Mr. & Mrs. Miller

Henry Miller and Eve McClure, 1948

Photograph: Denise Bellon

Vintage gelatin silver print

Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc, between 1450 and 1500

Oil on parchment

Archives Nationales (France)

(Complex Jupiter)

Applying Makeup

Andy Warhol Applying Makeup to Debbie Harry

Photograph: Christopher Makos - 1980

Digital pigment print

Flamingo Hotel

Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas. Medium format negative for the Look magazine 

assignment 'What Price Gambling in Nevada' QM. April 1954. 

Unidentified Photographer.  (Shorpy)

'Rocker'

'Rocker' with a Toad, Seacoal Camp,

Lynemouth, Northumberland, 1983

Photograph: Chris Killip

Gelatin silver print

Nature

Nature, 2002

by Kwon Soon Hyung

Porcelain clay body

C.M. Bell Portrait

Unidentified woman. ca.1895

From the C.M. Bell portrait studio

in Washington, D.C.

(Shorpy)