The Green Diner

The Family After the Meal or The Green Diner, 1891

by Édouard Vuillard

Oil on canvas

Dressing Up

Man dressed as a woman,

Mannheim, Germany, ca.1960

Burlesque comedian Crun-Crun

in Avignon, France, 1900

Both Photographs Courtesy of Sebastien Lifshitz

and The Photographers’ Gallery

Mount Carmel

Postcard: Philadelphia and Reading R. R. Station,

Mt. Carmel, Pa., ca.1917

Lady in Red, Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, 2016

Photograph: Niko J Kallianiotis

Emily

Emily Spencer Wills, ca.1859

1/6th plate daguerreotype with applied colour

Unknown photographer

Whitstable

Down to the Beach, Whitstable, England, 1959

Photo: Raymond C Lawson - Loaned by Nicholas D Cordès

Nashville

Pawn Broker, Nashville, 1912

Photograph: Lewis Wickes Hine

Mr. & Mrs. Simpson

Mr. & Mrs. A.L. Simpson, ca.1904

C.M. Bell Portrait Studio Washington, D.C.

5 x 7 in. glass negative

(Library of Congress)

Girls, Gags & Gaiety

Film Fun, April 1940

Artwork by Enoch Bolles

Film Fun, June 1942

Artwork by Enoch Bolles

Teenage Couple

Teenage couple on Hudson Street, New York, 1963

Photograph: Diane Arbus

Gelatin silver print

Doris Day

James Cagney and Doris Day in the 1955 film 'Love Me or Leave Me.' Day received critical acclaim for her role and she felt it was her best performance. Photograph: Underwood & Underwood/Corbis, 

Florida Ladies

Elderly Jewish community in South Beach, Florida, ca.1979

Photograph: Andy Sweet

Braque

Bottle and Fishes, ca.1910–12

by Georges Braque

Oil on canvas

The Port (Le Port), winter-spring, 1909

by Georges Braque

Oil on canvas

New York City

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

New York City, 1988

Photo: Elliott Erwitt

México

Desert of Sonora, México, 1979

Photograph: Graciela Iturbide

Gelatin silver print

Fireboat

Fireboat, Engine No. 44, Boston, Mass, ca.1903

8 x 10 in. dry plate glass negative

(Detroit Publishing Co.)

(Shorpy)

Kamaitachi

Kamaitachi 17, 1965

Photograph: Eikoh Hosoe

István Farkas

Coffeehouse Scene, ca.1922

by István Farkas

Oil on canvas

In the café, ca.1922

by István Farkas

Oil on canvas

Antony

Antony, the Sunday Bugler, 1947

Photograph: Robert Doisneau

New York

Midtown, New York Skyline, ca.1940

Photograph: Brett Weston

Vintage gelatin silver print

(Ash and Lightning)

Skinheads

Skinheads in Chelsea, London, March 1982

Photograph: Derek Ridgers

Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker in San Francisco in 1991

Photograph: Kathy Brew

Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin playing the harmonium in Alfons Mucha's

studio at rue de la Grande-Chaumière, Paris, ca.1895

Photograph: Alphonse Mucha

Still Life with Profile of Charles Laval, 1886

by Paul Gauguin

Oil on canvas

Fregene Beach

Walter Chiari at Rome’s Fregene beach in 1959

Photograph: Paolo Di Paolo

(Jupiter Marble from Juno)

Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh, January 1873

Photograph: Jacobus de Louw, The Hague

Portrait of the Artist's Mother, 1888

by Vincent van Gogh

Oil on canvas

Battle of Hill 881

US Navy officer Vernon Wike with a dying US Marine

at the Battle of Hill 881, near Khe Sanh, Vietnam, April 1967

Photograph: Catherine Leroy

Darcey Bussell

Darcey Bussell in a revival of Roland Petit’s 1946 ballet 'Le Jeune Homme et la Mort.' 2006. Photo: Tristram Kenton, The Guardian

Easter Sunday

Clothing salesman, Easter Sunday

Harlem, New York, ca.1941

Photograph: Weegee

Utility Man

Allen Ginsberg, utility man S.S. John Blair. "Just back from Galveston-Dakar doldrums trip, I handed my camera to the radio man on the ship’s fantail, smoking what? in New York harbour." circa October 30, 1947. (Photo and caption Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries - Allen Ginsberg Estate.)

Portrait of a Family

Untitled (portrait of a family in a studio prop boat), ca.1885

Unidentified Photographer

Hand-coloured tintype

Yokohama

Yokohama, 1966

From the series 'Base'

Photograph: Akihide Tamura

Gelatin silver print on Baryta paper

Marilyn

Marilyn Monroe during a break in filming The Misfits, New York, 1960.

Later Arthur Miller revealed how much she liked the Inge Morath shot.