Milkmaid

The Milkmaid, ca.1644

by Aelbert Cuyp

Black chalk, graphite, & gray wash

Willem de Kooning

Woman and bicycle, 1953

by Willem de Kooning

Oil on canvas

Willem de Kooning in his Long Island Studio, 1987

Photo: Robert R. McElroy - Getty Images

Tokyo Subway

Girl in the Subway, Tokyo, 1984

Photograph: Ed van der Elsken

Russian Sailors

Group of sailors, (Russian navy) 1893

8 x 10 in. glass plate negative

(Detroit Publishing Co)

Photo shows sailors on the Russian cruiser Rynda,

during the Columbian Naval Review, 1893.

Man in a Bowler Hat

Portrait of a man in a bowler hat, n/d

Phillips Glass Plate Negative Collection

(Powerhouse Museum Australia)

Bacon

The 46 Painting, 1946

by Francis Bacon

Oil on canvas

Gloria Grahame

Gloria Grahame

The Big Heat, 1953

Directed by Fritz Lang

“ The most memorable violence in The Big Heat is the flinging of scalding hot coffee in Gloria Grahame’s face by Lee Marvin, and later (in a vendetta worthy of Kriemhild), in his face by her. Lang’s explosive Mise-en-scène implies that the world must be destroyed before it can be purified.”

— Film historian Andrew Sarris in “You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet.”: The American Talking Film History & Memory, 1927-1949.

(The Big Heat - 1953. The Coffee Scene)

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges in Central Park, N.Y.C. 1969

Photograph: Diane Arbus

Martin Parr

A baby cries beneath a parasol as a woman tries to get some rest.

From 'The Last Resort' 1983-85

Photo: Martin Parr - Magnum

(Martin Parr's Web Site)

Cotton Candy

Cotton Candy - Cimarron, Kansas, 2015

From the series »American Fair«

Photograph: Pamela Littky

Archival Pigment Print

First Flight

First Flight TWA, 1949

(Zuni - Life on Mars - David Bowie)

Edward Turner

Edward and Edith Turner, ca.1896

(National Media Museum)

Edward Raymond Turner was a pioneering British inventor and 

cinematographer. He produced the earliest known colour motion 

picture film footage.

Agnes Turner on a swing

(Edward Turner, George Albert Smith,

and the Race for Colour)

Genet

French author Jean Genet, Paris, 1948

Photographer: Brassaï

Portrait of a Young Woman

Portrait of a young German woman - ca.1905

Photograph: W. Richter - Elberfeld

Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong practising on a plane

from Nigeria to the Gold Coast, 1956

Photograph: Larry Burrows

Ferry Dock, Detroit

Ferry dock near Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan

8 x 10 in. glass negative, ca.1900

(Detroit Publishing Co.)

Times Square

Times Square, 13 September, 2009

Photograph: Terabass

Flower Messenger, Times Square, 1955

Photograph: Frank Paulin

Gelatin silver print

Common Puffball

Lycoperdon perlatum, found in a mixed forest

on sandy ground north Dorsten, Germany. 

14 October 2005. Photo: Daniel Ullrich

Joseph Beuys

How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare

by Joseph Beuys - 1965

Photograph: Ute Klophaus

The invited public arrived at the gallery to find the doors locked. Through the glass front of the gallery they saw Beuys sitting in a chair with his face covered in honey and gold leaf, cradling a dead hare in his arms. Slowly he got up and wandered around the exhibition, as if explaining each work to the hare.

(Watch Joseph Beuys - How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare)

School Portrait

Portrait of a Young Teacher and Schoolgirls

U.K. ca.1915

(RPPC)

Stags & Hens

Stags in curlers and hens in nurses' outfits

Blackpool, ca,2013 - (Stags, Hens and Bunnies).

Photograph: Dougie Wallace

(Dougie Wallace's Web Site)

Norman Rockwell

American artist Norman Rockwell

in his Stockbridge studio, 1960

Photograph: Bill Scovill

Universal Exhibition 1900

Universal Exhibition, Paris 1900

Photograph: Félix Thiollier

Gelatin silver print

Swedish Sailor

Sailor in Uniform, n/d

Stockholm, Sweden

Photo: Carl Sandels

Natalie Wood & Robert Wagner

Actors Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner onboard their yacht off the California coast. July 1958. 35mm Kodachrome from photos by Robert Vose for the Look magazine assignment "Natalie Wood. Beauty and Violence."  (Shorpy)

Victoria Pier

Victoria Pier, Folkestone, England, ca.1895

Photochrom Colour Print

(Library of Congress)

Classical Ballet

Swan Lake

Backstage, London, 2016

Photograph: Sasha Gusov

In the dance studio, ca.1897

by Edgar Degas

Pastel on paper

Lady Isabella

Laxey Wheel

Isle of Man, ca.1895

Photochrom Colour Print

The rear of the Great Laxey Wheel (also known as Lady Isabella) in the village of Laxey, Isle of Man. 5th September 2015. Photograph: Tk420.

Posters by Cappiello

Le Jaeger, (lithograph) 1920

Art work by Leonetto Cappiello

(Devambez, Imprimerie, Paris)

La Victoria Arduino per Caffé Espresso

Art work by Leonetto Cappiello

(lithograph) 1922

Summer Time

Two unidentified girls,

one eating watermelon, the other disrobing, ca.1960

Unidentified Photographer

Coney Island, 1951

Photograph: Lou Bernstein

Jane Birkin

Jane Birkin, 1969

Photo: David Bailey

Gelatin silver print

(The East 96th Street Moon)