Velvet Underground

Velvet Underground at Paraphernalia Opening, New York, 1966

Photograph: Nat Finkelstein

Lot's Flight from Sodom

Lot and his daughters, (Lot's Flight  from Sodom,)  ca.1497. This scene is painted on the reverse side of Dürer's Madonna and Child. Painting by Albrecht Dürer, Oil on panel.

Lulu Belle

Glenda Farrell and Dorothy Lamour in 'Lulu Belle'

Directed by Leslie Fenton, 1948

Alfred G. Buckham

Aerial view of Edinburgh, ca.1920

Photograph: Alfred G. Buckham

Gelatin silver print

Group Portrait

Group Portrait, Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, ca.1970

Photograph: Elaine Mayes

Gelatin silver print

Accidental Paintings

Rencontre Accidentel (Accidental Paintings series), 1964

by Jacqueline de Jong

Oil on canvas

Female Portrait

Portrait of a Young Woman, ca.1470

by Peter Christus

Oil on oak panel

Holy Saturday

Procession, Holy Saturday

Canosa di Puglia, Italy, 2000

Photograph: Cristina García Rodero

Celia

Celia Compton

Celia Compton was born in Mile End, London in April 1886 to Charles, a wood chopper, and Mary Compton. Celia was one of nine children; only six survived into adulthood. On 25 January 1904, she married George Hayday, who was 10 years her senior. They had no children. She remarried after his death in 1933, became a money lender and died in 1966, aged 80. Photo: Horace Warner/Spitalfields Life,

The Maids

Chris Nietvelt and Thomas Cammaert in Genet's The Maids,

directed by Katie Mitchell, at Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam.

Photograph: Jan Versweyveld

59th Street

Policeman, 59th Street, New York, 1964

Photograph: Evelyn Hofer

Dye transfer print

Homeless in Kiev

A homeless man sleeps on a monument dedicated to architect Vladislav Gorodetsky in the center of Ukrainian capital of Kiev on March 11, 2019. Photograph: Sergei Supinsky - AFP

Dance Study

Dance Study, ca.1912

Photo: Adolf de Meyer

Platinum Print

Antoine d' Agata

Untitled - New York, 1991

Photo: Antoine d’Agata - Magnum Photos

Untitled - Mexico, Tijuana, 2000

Photo: Antoine d' Agata - Magnum Photos

The Last Supper

The Last Supper, 2016

by Ben Quilty

Oil on linen

Car Dumping

Car dumping was widespread across Britain in the late 1960s. This photograph, taken on the Walworth Road in south London, illustrated the extent of the problem. Photo: David Newell-Smith for the Observer, 1966.

Joanna Piotrowska

Untitled, 2014

Photograph: Joanna Piotrowska

(Southard Reid Gallery and Galeria Dawid Radziszewski)

U.S.S. Brooklyn

U.S.S. Brooklyn, forward turret and bridge

8 x 10 in. dry plate glass negative, ca.1897

( Detroit Publishing Co.)

Leigh Bowery

Leigh Bowery, Session II, Look 10, 1989

Photograph: Fergus Greer

(Courtesy of Michael Hoppen Gallery)

Ceramics

Painted earthenware vase by Joan Miró, 1942

Manufactured by Josep Llorens Artigas, Spain. 34.9 x 27.9 cm

(The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Protocell-E, 2016

by Toru Kurokawa

Stoneware with ash glaze

Daido Moriyama

Poster (Nakano), 1990

Photo: Daido Moriyama

From the book, Japan, A Photo Theater, 1965

Photograph: Daido Moriyama

(Getsuyosha)

Lower Manhattan

Elevated train structure and buildings, Lower Manhattan

Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein - December 1941

(Shorpy)

(How a Mosquito Operates - Winsor McCay)

Mukacevo

Man purchasing herring wrapped in newspaper,

for a Sabbath meal, Mukacevo, ca.1935-38

Photograph: Roman Vishniac

Albert Renger-Patzsch

Coal Mixing Plant (Dortmund) before 1929

(Hörder Verein, A former mining company)

Photograph: Albert Renger-Patzsch

Farmstead in Essen-Frohnhausen and

the colliery Rosenblumendelle, 1928

Photograph: Albert Renger-Patzsch

The Ladies Waldegrave

The three daughters of James Waldegrave, 1780-1

by Joshua Reynolds

Oil on canvas

Anonymous Aviator

Untitled, ca.1940

Anonymous Photographer, Self Portrait (?)

Negro Chain Gang

A southern chain gang, ca.1903

8 x 10 in. glass negative

(Detroit Publishing Co.)

Greta

Greta in her kitchen, 36 weeks, 2018

Photograph: Alana Holmberg

Stack it High

Stack it High - Hessle Road, Hull, England

Photograph: Martin Parr

Refugees

Flood Refugees, Louisville, Kentucky, 1937

Photograph: Margaret Bourke-White

Thokoza

 

Thokoza township, Johannesburg, 1991

Police watch an ANC rally while children taunt them

Photograph: Graeme Williams