Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin playing the harmonium in Alfons Mucha's

studio at rue de la Grande-Chaumière, Paris, ca.1895

Photograph: Alphonse Mucha

Still Life with Profile of Charles Laval, 1886

by Paul Gauguin

Oil on canvas

Fregene Beach

Walter Chiari at Rome’s Fregene beach in 1959

Photograph: Paolo Di Paolo

(Jupiter Marble from Juno)

Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh, January 1873

Photograph: Jacobus de Louw, The Hague

Portrait of the Artist's Mother, 1888

by Vincent van Gogh

Oil on canvas

Battle of Hill 881

US Navy officer Vernon Wike with a dying US Marine

at the Battle of Hill 881, near Khe Sanh, Vietnam, April 1967

Photograph: Catherine Leroy

Darcey Bussell

Darcey Bussell in a revival of Roland Petit’s 1946 ballet 'Le Jeune Homme et la Mort.' 2006. Photo: Tristram Kenton, The Guardian

Easter Sunday

Clothing salesman, Easter Sunday

Harlem, New York, ca.1941

Photograph: Weegee

Utility Man

Allen Ginsberg, utility man S.S. John Blair. "Just back from Galveston-Dakar doldrums trip, I handed my camera to the radio man on the ship’s fantail, smoking what? in New York harbour." circa October 30, 1947. (Photo and caption Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries - Allen Ginsberg Estate.)

Portrait of a Family

Untitled (portrait of a family in a studio prop boat), ca.1885

Unidentified Photographer

Hand-coloured tintype

Yokohama

Yokohama, 1966

From the series 'Base'

Photograph: Akihide Tamura

Gelatin silver print on Baryta paper

Marilyn

Marilyn Monroe during a break in filming The Misfits, New York, 1960.

Later Arthur Miller revealed how much she liked the Inge Morath shot.

Stubbs

Zebra, 1762-1763

by George Stubbs

Oil on canvas

The Mouse Controller

Die Mäusesteuer, 2017

by Bendix Harms

Oil on canvas

Family Portrait

Mother and child with family pet, 1926

Photograph: August Sander

Gelatin silver print

Los Angeles

Public Transit Areas, Los Angeles #11, 1979

Photograph: Anthony Hernandez

Inkjet print

Edinburgh Castle

Edinburgh Castle from the Vennel, ca.1870

Photograph: G.W. Wilson

Alina & Gulshat

The Two Parallels – Ten

Photo: Karina Bikbulatova

This black-and-white series is about Russian sisters abandoned by their father who live parallel lives. Gulshat lives with a poor family in a small village, while Alina lives in the city, studies in a prestigious school and does ballet. ‘They meet once a year in a small village, [where they] communicate, play, weave braids to each other, but don’t know that they are sisters.’

Posted 18th April 2019  (theGuardian)

The Vampire

Le Stryge, (The Vampire) 1853

Photograph: Charles Nègre

Salted paper print from a dry waxed paper negative

Peter O'Toole

British actor Peter O'Toole, 1962

Photograph: David Hurn

Peter O’Toole on set of the 1962 film 'Lawrence of Arabia'

Photograph: Courtesy Harry Ransom Center

Persona

Bibi Andersson (left) and Liv Ullmann

in Ingmar Bergman's film 'Persona' 1966

The Outcast

The Outcast, 2019

by George Condo

Oil and pigment stick on linen