Australian Art

Sonya Napaljarri Cooke Painting - Warnayaka Arts Centre

Lajamanu Community NT, Australia, December 2015

Photograph: Judith Crispin

Oldham, England

Boys playing football on a hill

above Oldham, England, 1982

Photograph: Don McPhee

Winter

A Winter's Night, n/d

Photograph: S.B. Walker

Seamanship

Merchant seamen working over the ship's side, 1964

Photograph: Fred Herzog

San Francisco To Macao

China Clipper Flight

21st April 1937

A December Flight

First successful flight of the Wright Flyer, by the Wright brothers. The machine traveled 120 ft (36.6 m) in 12 seconds at 10:35 a.m. on 17 December 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Orville Wright was at the controls of the machine, lying prone on the lower wing with his hips in the cradle which operated the wing-warping mechanism. Wilbur Wright ran alongside to balance the machine, and just released his hold on the forward upright of the right wing in the photo. The starting rail, the wing-rest, a coil box, and other items needed for flight preparation are visible behind the machine. This was considered "the first sustained and controlled heavier-than-air, powered flight" by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. Photograph: John T. Daniels.

A Tree For Christmas

Tower Colliery, Glamorgan, 1993

Photograph: Martin Parr - Magnum Photos

Detail from The Virgin and Child Enthroned, with Saints 

by Jan de Beer. Photograph: World History Archive/Alamy

(The Shorpy Christmas Party)

A Happy Christmas To All

Dylan

Bob Dylan outside his Byrdcliffe home

Woodstock, NY, 1968

Photo: Elliott Landy

Infrared colour film

Bondi Beach

Flat Rock, Bondi beach, Au, 2017

Photograph: Paul Blackmore

Departure?

Hudson River, 1955

Photograph: Vivian Cherry

İstanbul

Hazzopulo Passage, Beyoglu, İstanbul, 1958

Photograph: Ara Güler

Gelatin silver print

George Grosz

A Married Couple

by George Grosz, 1930

Watercolour, gouache, pen and ink on paper

Self-Portrait with Model in the Studio

by George Grosz, 1930-1937

Watercolour on paper

Hannah & Jessica

The Meter Maids, 2005

Dressed in gold bikinis and stilettos, the Australian Gold Coast Meter Maids have been putting money into expired parking meters to stop tourists and shoppers getting fined since 1965. "I went out with two of the girls, Hannah, 15, and Jessica, 18, on a few of their shifts. This photo was taken on one of their breaks. Despite the six-hour shifts in high heels and the odd derogatory remark, the girls seem to love their job, seeing it as a stepping stone into modelling and promotional work".

Photograph: Fiona Morris

Vietnam '68

U.S. Marines treating a wounded comrade

Hué, Vietnam, February 1968

Photograph: Don McCullin

Deakin Portraits

Portrait, 1930's

​Photograph: John Deakin

(The John Deakin Archive)

Colin, ca.1950's

Photograph: John Deakin

Gelatin silver print on paper

Eggleston

Untitled, ca.1965-9

Photograph: William Eggleston

Dye transfer print

Munch

Ashes, 1895

by Edvard Munch

Oil on canvas

Dracula

Bela Lugosi in a scene from Dracula, 1931

(Courtesy of Universal Studios Licensing LLC

and Margaret Herrick Library)

Irish novelist Bram Stoker

author of 'Dracula' ca.1906

Unknown Photographer

John & Louise

"St. Mary's County, Maryland. Negro Farm Security Administration clients and their homes -- Mr. and Mrs. Dyson [John and Louise], aged rehabilitation borrowers. Mr. Dyson was born into slavery over eighty years ago". September 1940.  Photograph: John Vachon   (Shorpy)

Legs

Heels - 1978

Photograph: Guy Bourdin

(Photo Imagenet)

Martine Franck, Paris, 1967

Photograph: Henri Cartier-Bresson

Gelatin silver print

New York Lunch Counter

New York City. 1958. 'People gathered at lunch counter.' 35mm negative

by street photographer Angelo Rizzuto, a.k.a. Anthony Angel. (Shorpy)

Woman In A Mask

Woman with a mask by Schlemmer seated

in one of Marcel Breuer’s first tubular steel chairs

Photograph: Bauhaus-Archive, Berlin

Hanging Rock

Hanging Rock, Foot of Echo Cañon, Utah, 1868

Photograph: Andrew J Russell

Gelatin silver print

(Courtesy Union Pacific Railroad Museum)

Letizia Battaglia

A bleak photograph from 1982: Three bodies lie slumped over chairs in a nondescript room, a sex worker and two of her clients, all killed for using heroin that was not supplied by the mafia. “It was such a small room,” she says, “and when I arrived it was full of people: policemen, doctors, magistrates. I had to wait there until, one by one, they left and I was alone with the bodies. It took an eternity, but I had to be alone out of respect for the dead.” Photograph & Text, Letizia Battaglia

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Paint It Black

Painting 200, 1960

by Pierre Soulages

Oil on canvas

17 March 1960, 1960

by Pierre Soulages

Oil on canvas

Yaksha

Yaksha Modi, daughter of Chagan Modi, in her father’s shop before its destruction under the Group Areas Act, 17th Street, Fietas, Johannesburg, 1976. Photograph: David Goldblatt/Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg and Cape Town,

Bandaged

Man With Bandage, 1968

Photograph: Fred Herzog

Road Wallah

Traffic Jam, Mumbai, India, 2015

From the series 'Road Wallah'

Photograph: Dougie Wallace

Humour In Art

The Acrobat Schulz V, 1921

by Albert Birkle

Oil on canvas

A Boy and Girl With a Cat and an Eel, ca.1635

by Judith Leyster

Oil on oak panel

(Caricature, Satire and over-the-top Horror)

Death-Day

Death-Day

Port au Prince, Haiti, 2001

Photograph: Cristina Garcia Rodero

Birds Of A Feather

Collared Whitestart, Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve

Costa Rica, 29 December, 2014

Photograph: Cephas

Pied kingfisher (Ceryle rudis leucomelanurus) female

Chambal River, UP, India, 24 November 2017

Photograph: Charles J Sharp