Detective Magazine Covers

Detective Book Magazine, Winter, 1949

Artwork by George Gross

Nick Carter Magazine, November 1933

Artwork by Jerome Rozen

Neal Cassady

Neal Cassady, (mug shot) 1944

Denver Police Department

In June 1944, Cassady was arrested for possession of stolen goods and served eleven months of a one-year prison sentence. (Wikipedia)

New York

Service With A Smile, ca.1955, New York City

Photograph: Norman Lerner

Archival Digital Print

S. Beckenstein's Emporium, New York, 1953

Photograph: Werner Bischof

Yali

‘A portrait of my daughter Yali with a comb stuck in her hair.’ 

Photograph: Sam Harris. Posted 4th Apr 2019, The Guardian.

The Interrogator's Garden

The Interrogator's Garden

by Paula Rego - 2000

Pastel on paper, mounted on aluminium

Originally commissioned by the Foundation For Victims of Torture, Paula Rego’s The Interrogator’s Garden offers untold complexities. Here the soldier sits as a camp figure of lust, surrounded by the tools of his horrible trade, each one as mysterious as the symbols in the Arnolfini Wedding. Paula Rego presents a softer side to her interrogator. She draws him as a romantic monster, an object of ridicule (?) a symbol of decadence, weakness, and folly. (saatchigallery.com)

Willie Liston

Newhaven Fisherman, Willie Liston, 1845

Photo: David Octavius Hill, and Robert Adamson

Calotype Print

(Art Blart)

The Naked Salesman

A Salesman, 1979

Photo: Hal Fischer

Carbon pigment print

Anselm Kiefer

Des Meeres und der Liebe Wellen, (The Sea and Love Waves) 2018-2019.

Emulsion, acrylic, oil, shellac, chalk, charcoal, lead on canvas on wood.

by Anselm Kiefer

Three Girls

Two girls on a truck, ca.1948

Photograph: Helen Levitt

Gelatin silver

Eliza D. Hobson at Croft Rectory, Yorkshire, 1860

Photograph: Lewis Carroll

Albumen print

Depression-era. 1930's

Family walking on highway with five children. Started from Idabel, Oklahoma, bound for Krebs, Oklahoma. Photograph: Dorothea Lange - June 1938. 

Gelatin silver print.

Death Watch

Danny Lee Wynter as Lefranc and Joseph Quinn as Maurice in Jean Genet’s Death Watch. Photograph: Marc Brenner.

Emma

Emma Bailey, née Scott, 1883, Iowa

Found on Shorpy

American Surveyor

Unknown American Photographer, active 1850s

Untitled (Surveyor) 1854

Daguerreotype

Abraham Ortelius

Cartographer, Abraham Ortelius, 1633

by Peter Paul Rubens

Oil on wood

Abraham Ortelius' World Map 1570

Living Rooms

Coburg, 2018

From the series 'Living Rooms'

Photograph: David Wadelton

Reservoir, 2017-2019

From the series 'Living Rooms'

Photograph: David Wadelton

World's Fair, Chicago

World's Fair, 1933

General Motors Building, Chicago

Linen Postcard

Albert Hofmann's Trip

Brian Blomerth’s Bicycle Day, published by Anthology Editions, documents events on 19 April 1943, when Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann embarked on the world’s first acid trip.

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He described what he felt as being:... affected by a remarkable restlessness, combined with a slight dizziness. At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant intoxicated[-]like condition, characterized by an extremely stimulated imagination. In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight to be unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After some two hours this condition faded away

Three days later, on 19 April 1943, Hofmann intentionally ingested 250 micrograms of LSD. This day is now known as "Bicycle Day", because he began to feel the effects of the drug as he rode home on a bike. This was the first intentional LSD trip.

Hofmann continued to take small doses of LSD throughout much of his life, and always hoped to find a use for it. In his memoir, he emphasized it as a "sacred drug": "I see the true importance of LSD in the possibility of providing material aid to meditation aimed at the mystical experience of a deeper, comprehensive reality."  (Wikipedia)

Nepal

An arranged marriage in Nepal. Marie Dorigney has covered child labour, the status of women and domestic slavery. Photograph: Marie Dorigny - MYOP

Opium Type

James Grauerholz and William Burroughs, n/d (1990's)

Photo: Udo Breger

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett, 1886

Unknown Photographer

Walt Whitman, Twilight.

The soft voluptuous opiate shades,
The sun just gone, the eager light dispell'd—(I too will soon be
gone, dispell'd,)
A haze—nirwana—rest and night—oblivion.

Agata

Agata

Bieke Depoorter’s ongoing collaborative project Agata is about a young woman she met at a striptease bar in Paris, in October 2017. Depoorter’s interest is in finding people that can work with her in telling a story – these stories are always partially hers, and partially theirs.

Photograph: Bieke Depoorter - Magnum Photos

Modersohn-Becker

Infant with Mother's Hand, ca.1903

by Paula Modersohn-Becker

Oil on canvas

Old Peasant Woman, 1903

by Paula Modersohn-Becker

Oil on canvas

Haircut

Idritsa, Pskov region, 2016

Photo: Dmitry Markov

An 18-year-old has a haircut before being released from an orphanage where Markov worked as a volunteer. He started shooting on his iPhone after his camera was stolen from his room. The image is described by Sean O’Hagan writing on Dmitry Markov in the Observer’s The Big Picture.

Harlem, U.S.A.

A Man in a Bowler Hat, 1976

From the series 'Harlem, U.S.A.'

Photograph: Dawoud Bey

Gelatin silver print

Summerstown Cafe

Summerstown

This is a lesser-known area in south-west London between Earlsfield, Tooting and Wimbledon. I had driven by this cafe hundreds of times and never really noticed it. However, late one wintery Sunday afternoon when the shadows were deep and long, it sprung out at me like an Edward Hopper painting

Photograph: Niall McDiarmid. Posted 31 Jul 2019, The Guardian.

(The Local Void in the Nearby Universe)

The 8th Hussars

8th Hussars Cooking Hut, 1855

Photograph: Roger Fenton

Albumen print

The 8th Hussars served in all of the major battles of the Crimean War including the Charge of the Light Brigade. Vivandières, also known as a Cantinières, were women who travelled with the French army as canteen workers.

Jacky

Jacky, Paris, 1961

Photo: Christer Strömholm

Gelatin silver print

Early Stones

Rolling Stones - Mick Jagger, centre, Bill Wyman, left,

and Brian Jones on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1965

Photograph: CBS via Getty Images

Frank Lloyd Wright

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright with his wife, 1958

Photographer: Marvin Koner

Frank Lloyd Wright's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

in Manhattan, New York City, USA.

Photograph: Finlay McWalter 2004

Fashion Photography

Anne & Isabella - Mirror & Taxi, 1959

Broadway & 46th Street, New York

Photograph: William Klein

Dye transfer print

Big in America, (Claudia Schiffer) Nashville, 1989

Photograph: Ellen von Unwerth

Colour Cibachrome

Weird Tales

Weird Tales, November 1941

Artwork by Hannes Bok

Weird Tales, January 1952

Artwork by Jon Arfstrom