Henry Moore

Large Two Forms by Henry Moore, 1966. Courtesy the Henry Moore Foundation. Photo © Jonty Wilde, courtesy Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1 aircraft, which he nicknamed Glamorous Glennis after his then girlfriend and later wife. Photo: REX Shutterstock.

Saul Steinberg

Saul Steinberg and Aldo Buzzi, New York. Photograph: Hedda Sterne, 1953/54. (Collection of Marina Marchesi and Franco Salghetti-Drioli)

Untitled, by Saul Steinberg. The New Yorker, July 22 1974. Ink, coloured pencil and collage on paper.

The Troubles

Soldier pointing rifle, bottom of Clonard Street, Belfast, 1978

Photograph: Chris Steele-Perkins

Thomas Rowlandson

Grog on Board - Hand-coloured etching, 29.8 x 40.1 cm. by Thomas Rowlandson, 1789. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Satan, Sin and Death, 1790. (Paradise Lost, The 2nd book) etching 32.7 x 37.8 cm. by Thomas Rowlandson. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Fighting Demons

Fighting Demons, 2020

by Genesis Tramaine

Acrylic, gouache, oil sticks, oil pastels, Yahweh!

Cuba

Old Generator Building, March 2019

Sierra Maestra Mountains, Cuba

Photograph: Richard Sharum

Sea Fresh

Fish & Chips, 2012, Blackpool

(Stags, Hens and Bunnies)

Photo: Dougie Wallace

Missile Mail

First Official Missile Mail

USS Barbero - 8th June 1959

(Crescent Neptune and Triton)

Jeanne Mammen

Boring Dolls, 1929

by Jeanne Mammen

Watercolour and graphite on paper mounted on cardboard

At the Shooting Gallery, 1929

by Jeanne Mammen

Watercolour and graphite on vellum

Whitley Bay

Whitley Bay, June 1989

From the series 'Writing in the Sand'

Photograph: Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen

(My generation: four decades of British youth – in pictures)

Alice

Alice, 2018

From the series Of Quiet Birds

Photograph: Sadie Catt

‘I’ve known Alice her entire life,’ says Catt. ‘Our parents grew up together and our families were close, so we became close too. Together as children, we watched as two unrelated cancers slowly took away her eldest sister and then her mother. I saw her descend into silence and then years later explode in expression. Life has brought distance between us, yet I see myself in Alice: a representation of thousands of other young people jostling through the modern day, carrying the past on their backs.’

James Howard Meredith

Mississippi, University, USA. University of Mississippi campus where James Meredith tried to register as the first black student, 1962. Photograph: Danny Lyon. Gelatin silver print

Fishermen

The Fishermen, 2021

by Dana Schutz

Oil on canvas - 90 x 96 in.

Lakeisha

Lakeisha, South Dallas, 1988

Photo: Mary Ellen Mark

Gelatin silver print

D Day

Tanks arriving in the London Docks prior to embarkation for the D Day beaches, 1944. © PLA Collection - Museum of London.

Crime Never Pays

Phantom Lady, October, 1948

Artwork by Matt Baker

Phantom Lady December 1947

Artwork by Matt Baker

Pissarro

French painter Camille Pissarro, ca.1900

Unknown Photographer

Jalais Hill, Pontoise, 1867

by Camille Pissarro

Oil on canvas

A Hole in One?

Practicing Golf Swing, 1986

From the series 'Pictures from Home'

Photograph: Larry Sultan

Chromogenic print

Blue Dog Red Cat

Blue Dog, 1996

by George Rodrigue

Oil on canvas

Red Cat, n/d

by Graham Knuttel

Oil on canvas

School Children

Portrait Of School Children in the United States ca.1880. A racially mixed group of children with their teacher pose for a portrait outside their schoolhouse. Many of them are holding their favourite items. Unknown Photographer.

Venice Beach

Venice Beach, California, US, 1968

Photograph: Dennis Stock

Sugar

Guánica Puerto Rico. (vicinity) Burning a sugar cane field. This is a process that destroys the leaves and makes the sugar cane easier to harvest. January 1942. Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. (Shorpy)

Harvesting sugar cane in a burned field, vicinity of Guánica, Puerto Rico, January 1942. Print from a colour slide. (Library of Congress)

Early Motorcycles

Indian Motorcycle Delivery - 1928

Norton CS1 - 1930

Unknown Photographer

The Embrace

L'Étreinte - Painted in Mougins on 23 October 1969

by Pablo Picasso

Oil on canvas

Einar Erici

The yeoman farmer Carl Anders Samuelsson, Stigåsa, Småland, Sweden, born in 1857, and his wife Anna Lena, 1932. Photograph: Einar Erici.

Espania

First Day Cover

Madrid - 1949

Belfast

Divis Flats, the poorest Catholic area of Belfast, Northern Ireland, 7 July 1988. Photograph: Alain Keler.

Bang Bang

Bang Bang, 1 July 2021

Digital Collage by Ray Wallis

Q Train Mum

Q Train - A mother with her two daughters seated opposite from me on the subway ride for about 45 minutes. The camera was on my lap and they never noticed me.’ Photograph & text Paul Kessel, 2021.

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Children of the Ukraine

Aleira and Friends, Ukraine, 2015

Photograph: Michal Chelbin

Archival pigment print

Andrey, Ukraine, 2017

Photograph: Michal Chelbin

Archival pigment print