Annie Oakley

Annie Oakley

The American exhibition shooter made her name in Ohio, aged 15, by winning a contest against Frank E Butler, whom she went on to marry. The pair took their talents on tour as part of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show and she performed all over the world, including for Queen Victoria. She also campaigned for women to be allowed to join the armed forces. Her story was immortalised in the musical Annie Get Your Gun. 

(Baker's Art Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, 1880's)

Hungary

Amputee, Hungary, 1916

Unknown photographer (Fortepan)

(Capital of Budapest Archives)

 

Woman and boy, Hungry, 1935

Unknown photographer (Fortepan)

(Capital of Budapest Archives)

Amir Khojasteh

Portrait of a Lonely Man #2, 2019

by Amir Khojasteh

Oil on canvas

Comandante, 2018

by Amir Khojasteh

Oil on canvas

Sinatra

Frank Sinatra with his minders and stand-in, who is wearing an identical outfit to the singer and actor, in Miami Beach while filming 'The Lady in Cement' in 1968. Photograph: Terry O’Neill - Iconic Images

Prague

A young woman protester is arrested by a riot policeman at a demonstration in Prague’s Wenceslas Square commemorating the anniversary of the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact armies, which crushed the Prague Spring.  Photograph: Bohumil Eichler, 21 August, 1989

Garden Portrait

Portrait of a Woman Seated in a Garden, n/d

Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia

Dana Schutz

Dana Schutz at her art studio in Brooklyn in December with “Treadmill,” left, and “Boatman,” right. The painter, coming off one of the biggest art world controversies, says she now imagines her audience when she is painting. Credit...Rebecca Smeyne for The New York Times.

The Shooting

"Shooting on the Air"

Inspired by the on-air murder

of two television journalists, 2016

by Dana Schutz

Oil on canvas

(Dana Schutz Controversy)

Dial M

Anthony Dawson and Grace Kelly in Dial M for Murder

Dial M For Murder, 1954

British Quad film poster for the Alfred Hitchcock film

Bauhaus - Monroe

A dancer from the Triadic Ballet, developed in 1922 by Bauhaus teacher Oskar Schlemmer, who also designed the costumes. 

Photograph: Getty Images

Marilyn Monroe  during the filming of  'The Seven Year Itch' 1954. 

Photograph: Sam Shaw

Musicians In Top Hats

Violinist, ca.1870

Unidentified Photographer

Trumpeter, ca.1870

Unidentified Photographer

Istanbul

Sirkeci, Istanbul, 1956

Photograph: Ara Güler

Gelatin silver print

A drunk man at a bar in Tophane, Istanbul, 1959

Photograph: Ara Güler

Gelatin silver print

Head Studies

Study for a Head, 1952

by Francis Bacon

Oil on canvas

Desert Boy, 1995

by Jim Lutes

Egg tempera on canvas

Underground

London Underground - Wembley Park, 1979

Photograph: Mike Goldwater

London Underground - Westbourne Park, 1979

Photograph: Mike Goldwater

Modern Slavery

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Modern Slavery - It's Closer Than You Think

Town Centre, Hastings, 24 ‎October, ‎2019

Photograph: Ray Wallis

Troop Evacuation

Troops evacuated from Dunkirk on a destroyer about to berth at Dover, 31 May, 1940. War Office Second World War Official Collection.

Girl From The Kara Tribe

A girl from the Kara tribe holds a rooster, Dus Village, Omo Valley, Ethiopia.

Photograph: Steve McCurry. Posted 6 Nov, 2019. (The Guardian)

Crime Never Pays!

Phantom Lady, April, 1949

Artwork by Matt Baker

Phantom Lady, April, 1948

Artwork by Matt Baker

Budapest

Budapest V. South of Kossuth Lajos Square, Hungary. Underground construction area. 1956  Unknown Photographer. 

(Fortepan) Capital of Budapest Archives.

South Goodwin Lightship Disaster

The South Goodwin Lightship is swamped during a hurricane force storm in November 1954. Seven crew lost their lives in the disaster off the Kent coast. Photograph: Stuart Heydinger - TopFoto

Tygart Valley

Buying groceries in community store. Tygart Valley, West Virginia. September 1938. Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. (Shorpy)

Interior With Figures

Interior with Figures

by Rembrandt - ca.1627

Oil on oak panel

(National Gallery Ireland, Dublin)

In 1904 this painting, then attributed to Willem de Poorter, was considered to show the game "La main chaude". It is a game in which sleight of hand and close attention are rewarded. One player, the "penitent," hides his face in the lap of a second (called the "confessor," a referee who monitors the game) and places his hand flat behind his back. In turn, other players slap the penitent on the hand, and he tries to identify who hit him. The player who lets himself be discovered becomes the penitent.

Later the painting was reintroduced to the oeuvre of Rembrandt and the interpretation of the scene was rejected as compared with the paintings of the subject by other Dutch artists, such as Jan Miense Molenaer.  

(Web Gallery of Art)

Eno

Brian Eno in AVRO's TopPop

(Dutch television show) on 19 April, 1974

Dr. Gachet

Portrait of Dr. Gachet, June, 1890

by Vincent van Gogh

Oil on canvas

The House of Doctor Gachet in Auvers, ca. 1873

by Paul Cézanne

Oil on canvas

Flora Palace

First Aids Benefit Club, Flora Palace, Amsterdam, I

Photograph: Erwin Olaf - 1983

Gelatin silver print

Shadows

The Third Man, 1949

Directed by Carol Reed

The Girls

Children who live at Greendale, Wisconsin, a model community planned by the Suburban Division of the U.S. Resettlement Administration. Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Resettlement Administration. September, 1939. (Shorpy)

(Daphnis and the Rings of Saturn)

Max Burchartz

Max Burchartz, 1927

Unknown Photographer

Grete W. (eyes) ca.1928

Photo: Max Burchartz

Gelatin silver print

Special Delivery

Paris - The Saint-Lazare

Postmarked 1903

First Flight, New York - Ankara

The Penny Black Stamp Co, New York 1947

(The Internet's 50th Anniversary)

Gustave Doré

Ludovico Ariosto's “Orlando Furioso”

Illustration by Gustave Doré, 1878

(Engraved by H. Pisan)