Portrait of a young sailor

 Karlskrona, Sweden

 Photo: A H Ahlfors

Clearing Snow on St. Catherine Street

Montreal, Quebec, Canada 1901

Photo: William Notman & Son

Hells Angles, San Francisco 1967 

 Photo: Irving Penn

Portrait of English illustrator Aubrey Beardsley 1896

Photo: Frederick Hollyer

'The Peacock Skirt'

Illustration by Aubrey Beardsley for

  Oscar Wilde's play Salomé (1892)

Barbers near Seraskerat

Istanbul, Turkey ca.1895

Photochrom Colour

 (Library of Congress)

Deep Snow Drifts

New York City 1958

Photo: W. Eugene Smith

East End girl doing the Lambeth Walk

London England ca.1936

Photo: Bill Brandt

Constantine, Algeria

 ca.1895

  Photochrom Colour

 (Library of Congress)

 Rhinoceros

 Woodcut

   Albrecht Dürer 1515

Christy Turlington

Harper’s Bazaar July 1999

Photo: Patrick Demarchelier

W. C. Fields in 'My Little Chickadee'

Directed by Edward F. Cline 1940

Once, during Prohibition,

I was forced to live for

days on nothing but

food and water.

W.C. Fields

 Three Asaro Mud Men, New Guinea 1970

 Photo: Irving Penn

H.M.S. Nelson from Lady Macquarie's Point

  Sydney, Australia ca.1890

Photo: Henry King

 Oriental Poppies, oil on canvas

 Georgia O'keeffe 1928

Portrait of a Lady
  Rogier van der Weyden ca.1465
 Oil on oak panel

Jean Genet 1985

French writer

Photo: Marc Trivier

 Aira 1979

Gelatin silver print

Photo: Robert Mapplethorpe

The Red Baron

Manfred von Richthofen 1917

'The Red Baron'

Photo: C. J. von Dühren

Olof Nilsson, master painter 1935

(Born 1865)

  Kulladal, Skåne, Sweden

 Photo: Einar Erici

The Raven #2

Raven

John James Audubon, 1827-1838

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
`Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,' I said, `art sure no craven.
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore -
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'

The Eighth Stanza of Edgar Alan Poe's The Raven

Illustration for The Raven

by Gustave Doré 1883

Edgar Allan Poe, 1848

Photo: Edwin H. Manchester