Friday 30 October 2020

Girl Portraits

Portrait of a young girl, Sweden, ca.1915
Studio: Svea Engman - Jerfsö, (Järvsö)

Eliza D. Hobson at Croft Rectory, Yorkshire, 1860
Photograph: Lewis Carroll
Albumen silver print

Thursday 29 October 2020

N.Y. Street Kids

New York City, 1950's
Gelatin silver print

"Why this boy seems to be carrying around a portrait of George Washington,
I can't imagine."

Wednesday 28 October 2020

Monday 26 October 2020

Sunday 25 October 2020

Helena de Laurens


Helena de Laurens' The play, "_jeanne_dark_", is currently touring France after a successful run at the Theatre de la Commune in Aubervilliers just north of Paris. 2020

Saturday 24 October 2020

Harold Pinter

British playwright & screenwriter Harold Pinter, 1995
Photograph: Tristram Kenton


The Birthday Party, by Harold Pinter - Dora Bryan (Meg), directed by Sam Mendes. Lyttelton, National Theatre, London, 1994. 
Photograph: Tristram Kenton.

Friday 23 October 2020

Laura Bullion


Laura Bullion (1876-1961). Female member of the Wild Bunch gang of outlaws, police mug shot mounted on Pinkerton's National Detective Agency identification card, 1893.


Front row left to right: Harry A. Longabaugh, alias the Sundance Kid, Ben Kilpatrick, alias the Tall Texan, Robert Leroy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy; Standing: Will Carver & Harvey Logan, alias Kid Curry; Fort Worth, Texas, 1900. From the studio of John Schwartz.

Thursday 22 October 2020

Wednesday 21 October 2020

Running Girl

Running girl in the Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon
Photograph: Jakob Tuggener, 1934
Gelatin silver  print

Jakob Tuggener, Self-Portrait, Zurich, 1927
Gelatin silver print

Sunday 18 October 2020

Helen Rae

Untitled, 2019
Graphite & colour pencil on paper

Untitled, 2019
by Helen Rae
Coloured pencil & graphite on paper

Saturday 17 October 2020

Machine Power

Pressure pipe, Vernayaz, 1938
Photograph: Jakob Tuggener
Gelatin silver print

Photograph: Jakob Tuggener
Gelatin silver print

Friday 16 October 2020

Tony

Tony
Tower Cafe, Caldecote, Bedfordshire
Photographer: Paul Graham - May 1982

Thursday 15 October 2020

Munich 33

Dr. Riegler and J. Greno, Munich, 1933 (Printed 1991)
Photograph: Josef Breitenbach
Digital iris print

Wednesday 14 October 2020

Philip Guston

Painting, Smoking. Eating 1973
Oil on canvas

Philip Guston painting, 21 August 1940
Photograph: Sol Libsohn

Tuesday 13 October 2020

Ford Motor Co.


Ford Customline Tudor Sedan. 1952. Colour transparency from the Ford Motor Co. photographic archives. (Shorpy)


Ford Fairlane Victoria hardtop coupe. A colour transparency from the Ford Motor Co. archives, 1956. (Shorpy)

Monday 12 October 2020

Charlotte Harbottle


Butcher Charlotte Harbottle photographed near her shop in Gosforth, Newcastle, for the Observer’s 50 favourite places and people in the word of food for The OFM 50. Photograph: Alex Telfer/The Observer

Sunday 11 October 2020

Susan Brownmiller


Feminist writer Susan Brownmiller photographed in her penthouse apartment in New York City for an interview in the New Review. Photograph: Christopher Lane for the Observer, 2018.

Saturday 10 October 2020

Friday 9 October 2020

Wednesday 7 October 2020

Burkina Faso


Les Amoureux Yougou Yougou, Volta. Photo studio, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, West Africa 1980. Photograph: Sanlé Sory,

Tuesday 6 October 2020

Monday 5 October 2020

Four Girls

Two girls in matching bathing suits, Coney Island, NY, 1967
Photograph: Diane Arbus
Gelatin silver print

Portrait of two girls, Brighton, Sussex, May 1974
From the Free Photographic Omnibus
Photograph: Daniel Meadows

Sunday 4 October 2020

Saturday 3 October 2020

Georg Baselitz

The Big Night Down the Drain, 1962-63
Oil on canvas

Das letzte Selbstbildnis I (The Last Self-Portrait I)
by Georg Baselitz - 1982
Oil on canvas

Thursday 1 October 2020

Thoughtful


Welsh actor Richard Burton sitting in a bath looking thoughtful in a scene from Stanley Donen’s 1969 film 'Staircase' -  Photograph: Terry O’Neill.