Tuesday 31 July 2018

Monday 30 July 2018

Willem de Kooning

Woman and bicycle, 1953
Oil on canvas

Willem de Kooning in his Long Island Studio, 1987
Photo: Robert R. McElroy - Getty Images

Saturday 28 July 2018

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.

Friday 27 July 2018

Man in a Bowler Hat

Portrait of a man in a bowler hat, n/d
Phillips Glass Plate Negative Collection
(Powerhouse Museum Australia)

Wednesday 25 July 2018

Gloria Grahame

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.

Monday 23 July 2018

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

Sunday 22 July 2018

Cotton Candy

Cotton Candy - Cimarron, Kansas, 2015
From the series »American Fair«
Photograph: Pamela Littky
Archival Pigment Print

Friday 20 July 2018

Edward Turner

(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

Wednesday 18 July 2018

Tuesday 17 July 2018

Monday 16 July 2018

Ferry Dock, Detroit

Ferry dock near Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan
8 x 10 in. glass negative, ca.1900
(Detroit Publishing Co.)

Sunday 15 July 2018

Times Square

Times Square, 13 September, 2009
Photograph: Terabass

Flower Messenger, Times Square, 1955
Photograph: Frank Paulin
Gelatin silver print

Saturday 14 July 2018

Friday 13 July 2018

Joseph Beuys

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.

Thursday 12 July 2018

Wednesday 11 July 2018

Stags & Hens

Stags in curlers and hens in nurses' outfits
Blackpool, ca,2013 - (Stags, Hens and Bunnies).
Photograph: Dougie Wallace

Tuesday 10 July 2018

Saturday 7 July 2018

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)

Friday 6 July 2018

Thursday 5 July 2018

Classical Ballet

Swan Lake
Backstage, London, 2016
Photograph: Sasha Gusov

In the dance studio, ca.1897
Pastel on paper

Wednesday 4 July 2018

Lady Isabella

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.

Tuesday 3 July 2018

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

Monday 2 July 2018

Summer Time

Two unidentified girls,
one eating watermelon, the other disrobing, ca.1960
Unidentified Photographer

Photograph: Lou Bernstein