Wednesday, 31 March 2021

Adrian Ghenie

Mr Turner 2, 2020
Oil on canvas, mounted on board

Lidless Eye, 2016
by Adrian Ghenie
Oil on canvas

Tuesday, 30 March 2021

Monday, 29 March 2021

Captain Maurice Happe


Captain Maurice Happe, rear seat, commander of French squadron MF 29, seated in his Farman MF.11 Shorthorn bomber with a Captain Berthaut. The plane bears the insignia of the first unit, a Croix de Guerre, ca.1915. Gelatin silver print. Unknown photographer.

Sunday, 28 March 2021

Saturday, 27 March 2021

Friday, 26 March 2021

Thursday, 25 March 2021

Transport Home Guard


A corporal and three soldiers of the London Transport Home Guard, 1941.
© Care of London Transport Museum.

Tuesday, 23 March 2021

Sodium Lit

Untitled, Sodium lit street object
by Phyllida Barlow2020
Acrylic on watercolour paper
(20.8 x 29.7 cm)

Monday, 22 March 2021

Sally Mann

Untitled, From the 'At Twelve' Series - Kelly and the Deer
Photograph: Sally Mann - 1983/85
Gelatin silver print

Sunday, 21 March 2021

Saturday, 20 March 2021

Women’s Suffrage Movement


A suffragette on hunger strike in the UK being force-fed with a nasal tube, ca.1911. Unknown Photographer.


The Women’s Suffrage Movement in the UK used poster art for political purposes, with this 1907 example, showing the forced feeding of women in prison for demanding the right to vote.

Thursday, 18 March 2021

Spicy Detective

Spicy Detective,  February, 1935
Artwork by H.J. Ward

Spicy Detective Stories, July 1936
Artwork by H.J. Ward

Wednesday, 17 March 2021

Palermo, Sicily


Brother and Sister of an Aristocratic Family, Palermo, Sicily, Italy, 1983. Photograph: Letizia Battaglia. Gelatin silver print

 

‘People were afraid even to look at my photographs’ … child with a gun in Palermo, 1982, which appears in 'Shooting the Mafia.' Photograph: Letizia Battaglia.

Tuesday, 16 March 2021

1935

L’Amour, 1935
Photograph: William Mortensen

Boris Karloff in 'The Bride of Frankenstein' - 1935
Photograph: Allstar - Universal

Sunday, 14 March 2021

Saturday, 13 March 2021

Devoe Money

Untitled, (Devoe Money in Jackson, Mississippi) ca.1970
Photograph: William Eggleston
Dye transfer print

Friday, 12 March 2021

Mary Cassatt

The Child's Bath, 1893
Oil on canvas

The Boating Party, 1893 - 1894
by Mary Cassatt
Oil on canvas

Thursday, 11 March 2021

August Sander

Café Waitress, 1928/29
Gelatin silver print

Compère, 1913
Photo: August Sander
Gelatin silver print

Peddler, 1930
Photo: August Sander
Gelatin silver print

Wednesday, 10 March 2021

New York

The Waterfront, New York, 1943
Oil on canvas

New York, 42nd Street, 1936
Photograph: André Kertész
Gelatin silver print

Tuesday, 9 March 2021

Niall McDiarmid

Babington Lane, Derby, June 2014
Photograph: Niall McDiarmid

The High Point, Whitley Bay, 2010
Photograph: Niall McDiarmid

Monday, 8 March 2021

Munch Self-Portraits

Self-Portrait in front of
'Metabolism' - Ekely, 1931-32
Photograph: Edvard Munch

Self-portrait on the Operating Table, 1902-03
by Edvard Munch
Oil on canvas

Sunday, 7 March 2021

Saturday, 6 March 2021

Friday, 5 March 2021

Appleton

Girls of the paper mills, Appleton, Wisconsin
8 x 10 in. dry plate glass negative, 1890
(Detroit Publishing Co.)

Thursday, 4 March 2021

Iddo Markus

Gossip
Oil on canvas

Father & Son
by Iddo Markus
Oil on canvas


Israeli painter Iddo Markus speaks during an interview at his studio, surrounded by his paintings of former US president Donald Trump, in the northern port city of Haifa, on January 22, 2021. Markus became fascinated by the "tragic figure" of Donald Trump, and the walls and floor of his studio are packed with some 120 portraits of the former US president. Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP. -  (by Claire Gounon)

Wednesday, 3 March 2021

Some Like It Hot


Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe from the trailer for the film 'Some Like It Hot', 1959.

Tuesday, 2 March 2021

Camberwell Road, South London

South London, From The Bus, 16th ‎November, ‎2020
Photograph: Ray Wallis

Monday, 1 March 2021

George Grosz

The Pillars of Society, 1926
Oil on Canvas

Eclipse of the Sun, 1926
by George Grosz
Oil on canvas