Bizet

Portrait of Georges Bizet, (French composer) 1875

Photograph: Étienne Carjat

Lexi & Jade

Lexi, Lindenhurst, New York, 2012, from American Girls

Ilona Szwarc has documented dolls and their owners in streets and homes across the United States.  The dolls are customisable with variable skin tones, hair colours and styles to match their owners. Photograph: Ilona Szwarc/Redux.

Jade, Farmingville, New York, 2011, from American Girls

The project raises questions about the defining and categorising of identity, along with who gets to be represented and how. Photograph: Ilona Szwarc/Redux.

Brooklyn, NY

When day is done in Brooklyn (boys in advertisement-covered subway car filled with passengers). June 25th 1949, Gelatin silver print by Angelo Rizzuto. (Shorpy)

Look Sharp!

Musician Joe Jackson, for Look Sharp!, London, 1979

"Noticing the bright sunlight shining through the gaps in the walkways above, I asked Joe to stand in a patch of light, and that was it – I got my shot. The whole thing took five minutes"  Photograph & Text Brian Griffin.

Australian Cricketer

Australian cricketer Warwick Windridge Armstrong, 1902

Unknown Photographer

New Guinea

Sitting Enga Woman, New Guinea, 1970

Photograph: Irving Penn

FutureScape

South London (Train To Hastings) 13th ‎July, ‎2020

Photograph: Ray Wallis

Street Scenes

Scène de rue à Montmartre (Impasse des deux frères et le Moulin à Poivre), by Vincent van Gogh, 1887.

Oil on canvas.

Street scene, 2002

by Oscar Yakovlevich Rabine

Oil on canvas

Weslaco, Texas

Weslaco, Texas. Farm Security Administration camp (Mercer G. Evans farm workers' community). Return from Saturday shopping. FSA client Nathan Drake at right. Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein. February 1942. (Shorpy)

High Atlas

Region of the High Atlas. Msemir region. Morocco

Photograph: Harry Gruyaert - 1976

(Magnum Photos)

Japanese Ceramics

Large Karatsu, madara glazed vase. Glazed stoneware, ca.1955,

17 1/4 x 15 5/8 in, by Kitaōji Rosanjin.

Japanese Tea Ceremony Vessel, Anonymous Artist, stoneware with ash glaze, early 19th century (Edo) Height 12.3 cm (4.8 in.) Collection: Walters Art Museum 

Studio: Louis Wagner

Portrait of a young woman

Germany - Carte de visite, ca.1875

Studio: Louis Wagner - Wiesbaden

Black Wire

Hastings, Sussex, 4th March, 2008

Photograph: Ray Wallis

Despair

Sick Mood at Sunset. Despair, 1892

by Edvard Munch

Oil on canvas

Despair, 1894

by Edvard Munch

Oil on canvas

Norfolk, Virginia

Overcrowded Navy towns, housing in Norfolk, Virginia. March 1941. Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. (Shorpy)

Robert Blomfield

Edinburgh, June 1966

Photograph: Robert Blomfield

Surprised by Death

Woman and Attendant Surprised by Death, 1500–1510

by Daniel Hopfer

Etching

Childress County

Tractored Out, Childress County, Texas, June1938

Photograph: Dorothea Lange

Gelatin silver print

Manchester, New Hampshire

Manchester, New Hampshire. Boy with bare arms, Fred Normandin, 15 Bridge Street, has been working in Amoskeag Manufacturing Company mill No.1 for several months, May 1909. Photograph: Lewis Wickes Hine. (Shorpy)

#49

31 Days #49, 2011

Photograph: Chris Lowell

Gelatin silver print

Grant Hargis Covers

Dime Detective Magazine, February 1951

Artwork by Grant Hargis

Dime Mystery Magazine, March 1941

Artwork by Grant Hargis

Portrait of a Woman

Portrait of Aleftyna Gościmska née Jerasiewicz

by Józef Oleszkiewicz - 1830

Oil on canvas

Fred MacMurray & Barbara Stanwyck

Promotional still from the film, Double Indemnity

Directed by Billy Wilder - 1944

(Paramount Pictures)

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse on the North Carolina coast on Jan. 1, 1999.

Photograph: Tech. Sgt. Howard Blair, U.S. Air Force.

(In, Through, and Beyond Saturn's Rings)

Identical Twins

Sandro Miller’s photograph of John Malkovich,

a tribute to the work of Diane Arbus, 2014

Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967

Photograph: Diane Arbus

Naked Art

Nude sitting with a green drape, 1927

by Alfred Lombard

Oil on canvas

Woman Combing her Hair, ca.1885

by Edgar Degas

Pastel on paper

Face to Face

Irek Mukhamedov (Romeo) and Viviana Durante (Juliet) in Romeo and Juliet, 1992. Photograph: Tristram Kenton.

Eyes Closed

New York City, 1954

Photograph: Elliott Erwitt

(Magnum Photos)

New York City, 1948

Photograph: Elliott Erwitt

(Magnum Photos)

Crown of Thorns

Christ with the crown of thorns, 1623

by Dirck van Baburen

Oil on canvas

H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft, ca.1930

Unknown Photographer