Saul Steinberg

Chicago by Saul Steinberg, 1952

Ink, crayon, watercolour and foil collage on paper

Saul Steinberg at East 71st St., New York, ca.1954

Photograph: Evelyn Hofer

Youth

Portrait 37, 2011

Photo: Mona Kuhn

Chromogenic print

Amanda in the Sauna, Hotel Savoy, Berlin, 1993

Photograph: Nan Goldin

Silver dye bleach process print

Beardsley

Portrait of Aubrey Beardsley, ca.1893

Cartes de visite by Russell & Sons

Albumen print

Masked Woman with a White Mouse, ca.1894

by Aubrey Beardsley

Oil on canvas

An American

I am an American, 1942

Photo: Dorothea Lange

Gelatin silver print

Watermelon Martinis

Studies for the Last Supper at Fatty's

(Watermelon Martinis) 2006

by Kim Dingle

Oil on vellum

Street Music

Organ grinder, New Orleans, 1924

Photograph: Arnold Genthe

Nitrate negative

Berlin Youth

Pauer -  1981-1982

(From the series Berlin Youth)

Photograph: Helga Paris

Gelatin silver print

Ramona, (Berlin Youth) 1982

Photograph: Helga Paris

Gelatin silver print

Black Mask

Black Mask, July 1949

Artwork by Norman Saunders

Black Mask, September 1949

Artwork by Norman Saunders

Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin

Australian writer and feminist, 1901

(State Library of New South Wales)

May Avenue

Children of May Avenue camp pumping water from thirty-foot well which supplies about a dozen families. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 

Photo by Russell Lee. July 1939. (Shorpy)

Detroit River Boats

Belle Isle ferry dock, Woodward Av., Detroit, ca.1896

8 x 10 in. dry plate glass negative

Detroit Publishing Co

Old timers on the Detroit River, ca.1903

8 x 10 in. dry plate glass negative

Detroit Publishing Co

Juliet

Juliet on Swing, The Face, 1999

Photograph: Elaine Constantine

Sally Mann

The new mothers, 1989

Photograph: Sally Mann

Gelatin silver print

Sally with Camera, ca.1998 - Gelatin silver print

Collection of Sally Mann. Photo © R. Kim Rushing

Félix Vallotton

Verdun, 1917

by Félix Vallotton

Oil on canvas

Oignons et soupière, 1925

by Félix Vallotton

Oil on canvas

Photographer Lai Afong

Portrait of a Merchant, 1870's

Photograph: Lai Afong

Albumen print

Portrait of an Official, 1870's

Photograph: Lai Afong

Albumen silver print from glass negative

Shawano County

Bean picker. Shawano County, Wisconsin. Our Lady of Legumes. August 1941, Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration, (Shorpy)

The Troubles 69

Riots in Northern Ireland, 1969

Photo: Hanns-Jörg Anders

Gelatine silver print

'We want peace', Londonderry, Northern Ireland, May, 1969

Photograph: Hanns-Jörg Anders

Gelatine silver print

Antoine Lumière

Photographer, painter and businessman, Antoine Lumière

Self-portrait, Lyon, 1860's

Edgar Allan Poe Film Posters

Film poster for the The Raven, 1935

Artwork by Karoly Grosz

Film poster for the Murders in the Rue Morgue, 1932

(Based on Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 short story)

Artwork by Karoly Grosz

Indiana

Coffee Pot Restaurant, Bremen, Indiana, 1939

Photograph: Frank Navara