Bernstein & Parks

Busker, N.Y. City, 1973

Photograph: Lou Bernstein

Washington, D.C. Saturday afternoon, Seventh Street and Florida Avenue N.W. August 1942.  Photograph by Gordon Parks, Office of War Information, (Shorpy)

Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman in 2005

Photograph: The Observer

Charles Dana Gibson

On the Sidewalks of New York, 1904

by Charles Dana Gibson

(Collier's Weekly)

Portraits

Portrait of a young woman, ca.1910

Denmark

Portrait of a young woman, ca.1900

Germany

Friedrich Seidenstücker

Elderly couple in Berlin, 1929

Photograph: Friedrich Seidenstücker

The Twins, Hilde und Helga Fischer, 1948

Photograph: Friedrich Seidenstücker

Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville

Photograph: Pal Hansen - Getty Images

Reverse, 2002

by Jenny Saville

Oil on canvas

Mexico

Teachers being beaten (Maestros Golpeados), Mexico, 1984

Photograph: Pedro Valtierra

The Pit and the Pendulum

Illustration for Edgar Allan Poe's story 'The Pit and the Pendulum', first printed in 1919. Artwork by Harry Clarke.

Harry Clarke, before 1931

Unknown Photographer

Dance Hall Doom

Spicy Detective, June 1938

Artwork by H.J. Ward

Spicy Detective Stories, November 1935

Artwork by H.J. Ward

Amazônia

Josane (foreground) and Aldeni, residents of communities in the Demini River region. Photograph: Sebastião Salgado.

A shaman from the community of Maturaca. Photograph: Sebastião Salgado.

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Great Yarmouth

Performers Roni, Liv and Becky behind the scenes at Great Yarmouth Hippodrome Circus. Photograph: Nick Warner.  See the full line-up.

Stick 'em Up

Untitled - Alabama, 1956

Photograph: Gordon Parks

Archival pigment print

Beech

Beech Tree, 1951

Photograph: Charles Sheeler

Gelatin silver print

van Oostsanen

van Oostsanen Painting a Portrait of His Wife, 1550

by Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen

Oil on panel

Richard Owen

Portrait of English anatomist and palaeontologist Richard Owen with the skull of a crocodile. Albumen print from wet collodion on glass negative, 1856. Photograph: Maull & Polyblank.

California

California, n/d

Photograph: Paul McDonough

Céline

Louis-Ferdinand Céline at his home in Meudon in about 1955. Photograph: Lipnitzki - Roger Viollet.

 "It seemed to me that there were two ways of telling stories. The classic, normal, academic way which consists of creeping along from one incident to the next...the way cars go along in the street...and then, the other way, which means descending into the intimacy of things, into the fibre, the nerves, the feelings of things, the flesh, and going straight on to the end, to its end, in intimacy, in maintained poetic tension, in inner life, like the métro through an inner city, straight to the end..." Céline

Francis Bacon

Two Figures, 1953

by Francis Bacon

Oil on canvas

Figure Study 1, 1946

by Francis Bacon

Oil on canvas

North Woolwich

North Woolwich Trolleybus and foot tunnel, ca.1950

Unknown Photographer

North Woolwich, the docks and the River Thames, 1928

Unknown Photographer

(Saturn at Night)

Remembering 9/11

‘Running didn’t even occur to me’

Gulnara Samoilova on photographing 9/11

Photograph: Gulnara Samoilova/AP

The Vagabond

Ottavio Russo – The Vagabond, Naples, Italy, 1961

Photograph: Herbert List

Vintage gelatin silver print

Doris Winifred Poole

Doris Winifred Poole, criminal record number 639LB, 31 July 1924. State Reformatory for Women, Long Bay, NSW, Australia.

Doris Poole appeared before the Newtown Police Court charged with stealing jewellery and clothing. She had previously been convicted on a similar charge in North Sydney and so received a six-month sentence with light labour. DOB: 6 June 1903.

John Topham

Nurses clearing debris from a wrecked ward at St Peter’s hospital in Stepney, east London, 1941. Photograph: John Topham.

A woman and a girl crossing a river on a temporary bridge, Lewisham, south London, 1938. Photograph: John Topham.

Civil Rights

William Edwin Jones pushes daughter Renee Andrewnetta Jones (8 months old) during protest, Main Street, Memphis, Tennessee, 1950s. Photograph: Ernest C Withers.

William Jones, a librarian at Memphis’s Owen Junior College, made this sign himself. His wife, who was active in the civil rights movement, encouraged him to march that day. Renee had been told the march that day was for fathers and daughters. The NAACP organisers did not want whole families to picket together, for fear of violence, so her mother and brother stayed home.

Wendell Pierce

Wendell Pierce, (Death of a Salesman)

Piccadilly Theatre, London, 2019

Photograph: Simon Annand

Larry Burrows

A South Vietnamese soldier escorts a captured man and boy suspected of being Viet Cong , having just flushed them out of a paddy field where they were hiding, 1962. Photograph: Larry Burrows/Time & Life pictures. (theGuardian)

Larry Burrows made a photograph that, for generations, has served as the most indelible, searing illustration of the horrors inherent in that long, divisive war - and, by implication, in all wars. Ben Cosgrove.

It's not easy to photograph a man dying in the arms of a fellow countryman... Was I simply capitalizing on the other men's grief? I concluded that what I was doing would penetrate the hearts of those at home who are simply too indifferent. Larry Burrows.

Burrows died with fellow photojournalists Henri Huet (Associated Press), Kent Potter (United Press International) and Keisaburo Shimamoto (freelancer with Newsweek), when their helicopter was shot down over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos as the group covered Operation Lam Son 719. (Wiki)

Industry

Blast Furnace and Dust Catcher, Ford Plant, 1927

Photograph: Charles Sheeler

Gelatin silver print

Steam Turbine, 1929

Photograph: Charles Sheeler

Gelatin silver print

Danielle

Danielle, Montalivet, France, 1989

Photograph: Jock Sturges

Gelatin silver print

Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch - Self-Portrait on a Valise

in the Studio, Berlin, 1902

Dance on the Beach, ca.1900

by Edvard Munch

Oil on canvas

Tesfaye Urgessa

From Light to Sight, 2019

by Tesfaye Urgessa

Oil on canvas, 250 x 180 cm.