Monday 30 September 2019

Sunday 29 September 2019

Saturday 28 September 2019

"Oh!" is for Oldsmobile


Billboards on side of building in New Orleans, Louisiana. Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration, January 1941. (Shorpy)

Friday 27 September 2019

Thursday 26 September 2019

Wednesday 25 September 2019

Svetlana Zakharova


Russian ballet star Svetlana Zakharova performs during a gala at Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre in support of young dancers in war-torn Ukraine, December 7, 2014. Photograph: Mikhail Logvinov - (AFP)

Tuesday 24 September 2019

Willem de Kooning

East Hampton XVII, 1968
Oil on paper mounted to canvas

Willem De Kooning in his studio in
Long Island, New York, in 1987
Photograph: Robert R. McElroy - Getty Images

Monday 23 September 2019

Los Angeles

E Street at Wilmington Boulevard, 1979
Photograph: John Humble
Vintage Cibachrome Print

Indiana Street at Brooklyn Avenue
East Los Angeles, June 26 1987
Photograph: John Humble
Vintage Cibachrome Print

Sunday 22 September 2019

Saturday 21 September 2019

Friday 20 September 2019

Thursday 19 September 2019

Soviet Cinema Posters

Cement, 1928
Directed by Vladimir B. Vilner

The Conveyor of Death, 1933
Directed by Ivan Pyryev
Artwork by The Stenberg Brothers

Monday 16 September 2019

Bingham Mine, Utah


Utah Copper - Bingham Mine. Brakeman of an ore train at the open-pit mining operations of Utah Copper Company at Bingham Canyon, Utah. Photo by Andreas Feininger for the Office of War Information, November 1942. (Shorpy)

Sunday 15 September 2019

Homage to Kerouac

Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg at the grave
of Jack Kerouac in Massachusetts.
Photograph: Netflix/PA.
(Posted: 17 Jun 2019, The Guardian)

Saturday 14 September 2019

Ingres

Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Self-Portrait, 1804, revised ca.1850
Oil on canvas

Friday 13 September 2019

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Oedipus and the Sphinx after Ingres, 1983
Oil on canvas

Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1808
Oil on canvas

Thursday 12 September 2019

Battle Endgame


A girl in the old city in western Mosul, Iraq, near the destroyed Great Mosque of al-Nuri, on 6 July 2017. Photograph: Carol Guzy - Zuma Press.
(The Guardian)

Wednesday 11 September 2019

By the Sea

Harbour and Chateau Fort, Annecy, France, ca.1895
Photochrom colour print

View from North Pier, Blackpool
Lancashire, England, ca.1895
Photochrom colour print

Tuesday 10 September 2019

Amy Johnson

English Aviatrix Amy Johnson in her Black Hawk Moth
leaving Australia for Newcastle, 14 June 1930
(The Age newspaper)

Monday 9 September 2019

Sunday 8 September 2019

August Sander

Gypsy man, ca.1930
Photograph: August Sander
Gelatin silver print

'Test your Strength' Showman, ca.1929
Photograph: August Sander
Gelatin silver print

Saturday 7 September 2019

Bolivarian Games

The Bolivarian Games marked the 400th
anniversary of the city of Bogota, 1938

Poster for the Bolivarian Games
anniversary of the city of Bogota, 1938
Artwork by Sergio Trujillo Magnenat

Friday 6 September 2019

Italy 58

Venice, 1958

A free ride, Naples, 1958
Photo: Gianni Berengo Gardin

Thursday 5 September 2019

Tiller Girls in Blackpool


Two women chatting on the railings in Blackpool. The picture was taken by Bert Hardy using a single-focus box camera. The women are former Tiller Girls Pat Wilson (right) of Bridgend, mid Glamorgan, and Wendy Clarke of Southall in London. Published in Picture Post 1951. Photograph: Bert Hardy

Wednesday 4 September 2019

Edgar Allan Poe

American Poet Edgar Allan Poe, 1849

Daguerreotype, given to Poe's friend Mrs. Annie L. Richmond; probably taken in June 1849 in Lowell, Massachusetts, photographer unknown. Restored by Yann Forget and Adam Cuerden.

The Raven
By Edgar Allan Poe

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
    While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
            Only this and nothing more.”

Tuesday 3 September 2019

Honoré Daumier

Lunch in the Country, ca.1867-1868
Oil on panel

Third Class Carriage, 1856
by Honoré Daumier
Oil on panel

Monday 2 September 2019

Diane Arbus

A woman with her baby monkey, N.J. 1971
Photograph: Diane Arbus
Gelatin silver print

Muscle Man in his dressing room with trophy
Brooklyn, New York City, 1962
Photograph: Diane Arbus
Gelatin silver print

Sunday 1 September 2019