Laura Keene

Laura Keene, ca.1855

Photograph: Rufus Anson

Sixteenth-plate daguerreotype

Adulation

Fan being carried to safety after the appearance of 

the Osmonds pop group, London, 1975

Photograph: John Downing

Cornwallis Gardens

Cornwallis Gardens, Hastings, 8th ‎April, ‎2020

Photograph: Ray Wallis

(Fresh Tiger Stripes on Saturn's Enceladus)

Ruler

Ruler, 2019

by Stefanie Heinze

Acrylic and oil on canvas

Newbern, Alabama

Green Warehouse, Newbern, Alabama, 1978

Photograph: William Christenberry

Brownie pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo satin paper

Mr. Lynch

David Lynch, 2005

Photograph: Andrzej Dragan

Eraserhead Poster, 1977, Libra films

Modigliani

Little Servant Girl, ca.1916

by Amedeo Modigliani

Oil on canvas

Manuel Humbert, ca.1916

by Amedeo Modigliani

Oil on canvas

Gunston Hall Girls

Washington, D.C., circa 1905. Gunston Hall preparatory dept. Early approaches to prep-school bling. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. (Colourised version by Shorpy)

New York

Lunchroom Buddies, New York City, 1931

Photograph: Walker Evans

Free Manicure with Your Lunch, New York

(Plus free tea cup reading) 1940's

Photograph: Lee Sievan

Polypore Fungus

Meripilus giganteus, 6 August, 2012

Photograph: Michael Gäbler

(Cassini Approaches Saturn)

The Ruins Of War

Adolf Hitler delivers a speech at the Kroll Opera House to the men of the Reichstag on the subject of Roosevelt and the war in the Pacific, declaring war on the United States. 11 December 1941. 

Photograph: German Federal Archives

A view taken from Dresden’s town hall of the destroyed Old Town after the Allied British and American bombings between 13 and 15 February 1945. Some 3,600 aircraft dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on the German city. The resulting firestorm destroyed 15 square miles of the city center, and killed between  22,000 and 25,000 civilians. Dresden, Saxony, Germany. June 1945. 

Photograph: Walter Hahn/AFP/Getty Images.

Vermont State Fair

At the State Fair in Rutland, Vermont. Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration, September 1941. (Shorpy)

King Gudea

A dolerite statue of King Gudea, 2130 BC

Photograph: British Museum

Black & White

Farmers at a cattle auction, Vryburg, 1965

Photograph: David Goldblatt

Gelatin silver print

Three women at 39 Soper Road

Berea, Johannesburg, May 1972

Photo: David Goldblatt

Gelatin silver print

"I Killed My Mentor!"

São Paulo, Brazil, 1960

Photograph: Rene Burri - Magnum Photos

Speaking about the photograph not long before he died in 2014, Burri described how it came about. “Did I know those men were there when I took that photograph? No. Buildings weren’t guarded in those days. It was a question of getting to the top and knocking on the door… ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah. Come in!’ So I walked out on to the terrace and, at that moment, those guys came from nowhere and I shot five images.”

For him, more than anything else, the picture simply represented a professional coming of age. “In those days Henri Cartier-Bresson [the president of Magnum] limited us to lenses from 35mm to 90mm. When I showed him the photos he said: ‘Brilliant René!’ The lens I used was 180 mm – I never told him! At that point I broke loose from my mentor. I killed my mentor!” (The Guardian)

Munch

Self-Portrait with Cigarette, 1895

by Edvard Munch

Oil on canvas

The two halves of a Self-Portrait

with Tulla Larsen, ca.1905

by Edvard Munch

Oil on canvas

(Portrait was sawn in half by the artist after he was shot in a bedroom scuffle)

Spellbound

Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman in Spellbound. Director: Alfred Hitchcock, 1945. (Promotional still - Selznick International Pictures, Vanguard Films)

Villain

Richard Burton and Cathleen Nesbitt, who played Dakin’s mum in the film 'Villain', on Brighton pier, 1971. Photograph: Studiocanal.

Miró

Women and Bird in the Moonlight, 1949

by Joan Miró

Joan Miró, 1933

Photograph: Man Ray

Marked With The Curse

Cat People, Starring Simone Simon

Directed by Jacques Tourneur

Cat People, 1942

Punks

Punks at the Station, Gateshead, England, 1985

Photograph: Chris Killip

Spellbound

Spellbound. Acrylic on mahogany panel, 18 by 18 inches. Homage to Sandro Bottichelli, "The Birth of Venus" Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy. "Spellbound" is my commentary on a phenomenon observed everywhere today: beautiful young people on cell phones, oblivious to the wonders that surround them, oblivious to each other and even to the wonders that they, themselves, embody right now. The museum gallery seems the perfect setting for this commentary and, for me, Botticelli’s "Birth of Venus" is the perfect and lasting tribute to the magic, majesty, poetry and power these spellbound girls unwittingly already possess. Painting & Text by Jenness Cortez (n/d)

Zissou

Lartigue’s older brother

Zissou in the pool at Rouzat, 1911

Photograph: Jacques Henri Lartigue

Cinder

Cinder - 2007

(From the Fallen Princess series)

Photograph: Dina Goldstein

Digital photograph

Bombs & Tigers

China -  The American Nuclear Bomb is Nothing but a Paper Tiger. 

Designer unknown. Photograph, Robert Feliciano.

China - Long Live Chairman Mao!, 1971. Revolutionary Committee and Propaganda Team of the Workers of the Shanghai Fine Arts School. Photograph, Robert Feliciano.

Tracey Moffatt

Something More #1, 1989

by Tracey Moffatt

Cibachrome print

North Carolina

Crossroads Store, North Carolina, July 1939

Photograph: Dorothea Lange

Gelatin silver print

Brooklyn

Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, New York, ca.1960's

Photograph: Herbert Randall

August Sander

Brother & Sister, ca.1922

Photo: August Sander

Gelatin silver print

Farm Girl, ca.1910

Photo: August Sander

Gelatin silver print

Monkey's Face

Vintage postcard of Brimham Rocks, ca,1908

North Yorkshire, England

(Valentine's series)