Marilyn Stafford in Paris

Girl with milk bottle, Cité Lesage-Bullourde, Paris, ca.1950

Photograph: Marilyn Stafford

Street sleepers, Boulogne-Billancourt, 1950

Photograph: Marilyn Stafford

Turin

Psychiatric hospital. Collegno near Turin, Italy. 1980

Photograph: Raymond Depardon - Magnum

Master of Men

The Spider, January 1942

Artwork by Rafael de Soto

The Spider, June 1941

Artwork by Rafael de Soto

West Berlin

Children playing at 'building the Wall' - West Berlin. 1962

Photograph: Raymond Depardon - Magnum

Iraq

A weary American soldier stands guard as a residential home is searched, Rawah, Iraq, 2006. Photograph: Peter van Agtmael.

Jen, Blake and Rachel

Jen, Blake and Rachel (1985-1986)  from 'Between Girls'

Photograph: Karen Marshall

Last Night in Soho

Last Night in Soho - 2021

Anya Taylor-Joy and Matt Smith in the bar between takes.

Private Michael McNamara

The 5th Dragoon Guards was a British army cavalry regiment, officially formed in January 1686 as Shrewsbury's Regiment of Horse. The unit was redesignated as heavy cavalry and was sent to the Crimean War in 1853, taking part in the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854. This photograph shows Private Michael McNamara, of the 5th Dragoon Guards, and was part of a commissioned set of photographs taken at Aldershot for Queen Victoria in 1856.

Photograph credit: Hughes & Mullins after Cundall & Howlett; restored by Adam Cuerden.

Abstract 2021

Untitled (The Renouncer)

by Liam Everett - 2021

Ink, oil, sand on primed linen - 79 x 60 inches

Fast Forward

by Sarah Sze - 2021

Oil, acrylic, acrylic polymers, ink, aluminium, Dibond, and wood

40.6 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm

Wallace's Flying Frog

Rhacophorus nigropalmatus, Wallace's flying frog - Khao Sok National Park. Photo by Thai National Parks, 6 September 2016. Photograph: Rushenb.

(Alfred Russel Wallace)

Rothko

Untitled (The Subway), 1937

by Mark Rothko

Oil on canvas

New York

Untitled, New York, 1972

Photograph: Garry Winogrand

Savage Heart

Creature from the Black Lagoon, 1954

Directed by Jack Arnold

Port of London

Trucks bound for Mombasa being loaded for shipment at Royal Albert Dock, 1955. Photograph: PLA Collection - Museum of London

A raftsman manoeuvring floating timber, ca.1930-1945. Photograph: PLA Collection - Museum of London.

Mary and Agnes

The Flag of Distress by Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, 1885

The wooden brig ‘Mary and Agnes’ sailing from London to Newcastle with a cargo of scrap iron became stranded on Whitby Beach. The crew of six were rescued with the aid of a rope attached to a rocket.

Small Birds

Willow Tit, (Poecile montanus) February 2014

Photograph: Francis C. Franklin

Bee hummingbird (Mellisuga helenae) immature male

Cuba, 20 February 2016

Photograph; Charles J. Sharp

Vaalrand

A poor family's bedroom, Vaalrand, South Africa, 1988

Photographer: Santu Mofokeng

Vincent van Gogh

Meules de Blé  (Wheat stacks) June 1888

by Vincent van Gogh

Watercolour

Wheat stacks in Provence, June 1888

by Vincent van Gogh

Oil on canvas

Mata Hari

Mata Hari in 1906, soon after the Dutchwoman reinvented herself as an exotic dancer. Inspired by dances she had seen in the Dutch East Indies, she took a stage name that means “eye of the day” in Malay. Unknown author.

Street Demo

Street Demonstration, San Francisco, 1936

Photograph: Dorothea Lange

Gelatin silver print

The Velvet Underground

Andy Warhol, Nico, and the Velvet Underground, Los Angeles, CA, 1966. Photograph: Steve Schapiro. Gelatin silver prnt.

West Point, N.Y.

West Shore R.R. depot, West Point, N.Y.  Ca.1895 - 8x5 inch dry plate glass negative. Detroit Photographic Company. Shorpy.

USA Style

"Nineteen-Sixty Cadillac 6339 four-window Sedan de Ville at the GM Technical Centre." Warren, Michigan, 1959. This was a General Motors body style popularly known as the "flat top." Colour transparency from the GM photographic archive.

Ford Thunderbird. Removable glass-fibre hard top has stylish 'port' windows, 1957. Colour transparency from the Ford Motor Co. photographic archive.

Megan

Megan, Huntington Beach, California, 2016

Photograph: Deanna Templeton

Golden Bream

Still Life with Golden Bream (Besugos), 1808–1812

by Francisco de Goya

Oil on canvas - 44.8 x 62.5 cm.

Telefon Posters

Poster “so telephonieren” 1950

by Ernst A. Heiniger

Telefon poster, 1942

by Ernst A. Heiniger

Bianco Ridge

Rope team on the Bianco ridge, Grisons, 1941

Photograph: Ernst A. Heiniger

(Moons Beyond Rings of Saturn)

Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen, June 1974

Photo: Tony McGrath

Picasso

Mousquetaire à la pipe II, signed 'Picasso' (upper right); dated and numbered '5.11.68. II' (on the reverse), by Pablo Picasso, Oil and Ripolin on canvas.

Period of creation, 1941 Femme au chapeau assise dans un fauteuil (Dora Maar) by Pablo Picasso. Oil on canvas.

Norman Lerner

The Window Cleaner, 1950's

Photograph: Norman Lerner

A New Year!

Dolly Haas in a celebratory mood, 1935

Unknown Photographer