Nude With Braids

NERVE - The New Nude (Cover), 2000

Photograph: Leslie Lyons

Gelatin silver print

(The Colours of Saturn)

Tamara Rojo

Tamara Rojo performs with the English National Ballet at Sadler’s Wells in 2017. Photograph: Tristram Kenton - The Guardian

Animals

Bears at Circus Vargas in California, 1990

Photograph: Jill Freedman

Fair Day, County Leitrim, Republic of Ireland, 1973

Photograph: Jill Freedman

Espana

La Chanca, Almería, Spain, 1957

Photograph: Carlos Pérez Siquier

Gelatin silver print

La, Chanca, Almería, Spain, 1960

Photograph: Carlos Pérez Siquier

Gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper

Lucas Cranach

Venus and Cupid, ca.1525

by Lucas Cranach the Elder

Oil on beech wood panel

Judith with the head of Holofernes, 1530

by Lucas Cranach the Elder

Oil on beech wood panel

Abstract?

Just Down the Street, 1965

by Luchita Hurtado

Oil on paper

Dark Window, n/d

by Toti Scialoja

Oil on canvas

Metallica

Metallica’s Black Album Tour, 1 July, 1993 (Belgium)

Photograph: Ross Halfin

A Käthe Kollwitz Etching

Death and the Mother

by Käthe Kollwitz - 1910

Etching and roulette (with some aquatint and scraper)

Major General Rufus Ingalls

Gen. Rufus Ingalls and group, May 1865

City Point, Virginia

(Shorpy)

Union Major General Rufus Ingalls. Photograph from the main eastern theatre of war, winter quarters at Brandy Station, 1864. Photo: Timothy H. O'Sullivan.

Bill Brandt's London

Bus on Battersea Bridge, London, ca.1955

Photograph: Bill Brandt

Gelatin silver print

Domino players in a North London pub, ca.1932

Photograph: Bill Brandt

Gelatin silver print

Liberty Speaking

"Hello! This is liberty speaking -

billions of dollars are needed and needed now"

Artwork by Z.P. Nikolaki, 1918, (USA) Colour lithograph

Vintage WWII poster, (USA) 1942

7th September 1940

A German Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111 bomber flying over Wapping and the Isle of Dogs in the East End of London at the start of the Luftwaffe's evening raids, 7 September 1940. (German Air Force photographer)

View along the River Thames in London towards smoke rising from the London docks after an air raid during the Blitz, 7 September 1940. 

(New York Times Paris Bureau Collection)

Fashion Photography

Alena

The Neighbourhood, Milan, 1991

Photograph: Stephanie Pfriender Stylander

Twins at the Beach, Harper’s Bazaar, 1949

Photograph: Louise Dahl-Wolfe

Carnival

Whitehaven carnival, England,1963

Photograph: Ivor Nicholas

Wake Me

Coronation of King George VI, London, 12 May, 1937

Photograph: Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henriette

Henriette Charlotta Catharina Ronjon, Wife of the Photographer.

Daguerreotype. Photographer: Johan Wilhelm Bergström, probably 1840's.

(Cecilia Heisser - National Museum) 

Grain Elevator

Great Northern grain elevator. Superior, Wisconsin, August, 1941. Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. (Shorpy)

Calypso

Calypso, New York, ca.1945

Photograph: Weegee

Gelatin silver print

Parisian Lovers

Lovers in a Small Cafe

Italian District, Paris, ca.1932

Photograph: Brassaï

Gelatin silver print

Dutch Windmill

Windmill in the middle of the city, ca.1935

Oostplein, Rotterdam - Holland

Unknown Photographer

Sunflowers

Withered Sunflowers, 1887

by Vincent van Gogh

Oil on canvas

Death Bride

Novia Muerte (Death Bride)

Chalma, Malinalco, Mexico, 1990

Photograph: Graciela Iturbide

Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley as Magus, Liber ABA, 1912

Originally published in The Equinox volume 1, issue 10 (1913)

Unknown photographer

Léon Spilliaert

The Absinthe Drinker, 1907

by Léon Spilliaert

Indian ink, pastel and gouache on paper

Léon Spilliaert, left, with the sculptor Oscar Jespers

on the balcony of the Kursaal, Ostend, August, 1925

Photograph: Maurice Antony

Enoch's Girls

Titter, 1943

Artwork by Enoch Bolles

Film Fun, 1941

Artwork by Enoch Bolles

Bangladesh

A nurse from British charity War on Want attempts to vaccinate a terrified boy against cholera during an outbreak of the disease at a refugee camp outside Kolkata during the Bangladesh Liberation War, June 1971. Photograph: John Downing.

This image won Singles 2nd prize in the 1972 World Press Photo contest.

Goya

Francisco de Goya, Self-portrait, 1826

Oil on canvas

The Third of May, 1808

by Francisco de Goya, 1814

Oil on canvas

Bird Talk

Jackdaws, 28 April, 2015

Hortobágy National Park, Hungary

Photograph: Mick Durham FRPS - Alamy

Graf Zeppelin

LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin over

Rio de Janeiro, 25 May, 1930

Photograph: Jorge Kfuri

Graf Zeppelin Airship Hangar, 1936

Friedrichshafen, Germany

Unknown Photographer

New York

Conductor, Third Avenue El, early 1950's

Photograph: Vivian Cherry

Lower East Side, early 1950's

Photograph: Vivian Cherry

Rachel

Rachel age 17, 1985

Photograph: Tom wood