Lisa

Lisa Lyon, 1982

Gelatin silver print

Photograph: Robert Mapplethorpe

Lisa Lyon, 1980

Gelatin silver print

Photograph: Robert Mapplethorpe

Roman Vishniac

Young Jewish boys suspicious of strangers

Mukachevo, ca.1935-38

Photo: Roman Vishniac

Vishniac’s daughter Mara posing in front of an election poster for Hindenburg and Hitler that reads 'The Marshal and the Corporal DD Fight with Us for Peace and Equal Rights,' Wilmersdorf, Berlin, 1933. 

Photograph: Roman Vishniac,

Jo Brand

English comedienne Jo Brand, 1994

Photograph: Mark Granier

I met Jo Brand briefly after a show she gave in Belfast (can't remember the venue). I was doing a PoetryCreative Writing MA in Co Antrim at the time. She was a joy to photograph, friendly, unselfconscious, playful and comfortable in her own skin.

Close Harmony

Farmer, his wife, and brother in close harmony. Pie Town, New Mexico, June 1940. Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. (Shorpy)

The Philanthropist

Gillian Anderson and Tim Choate in a scene from Christopher Hampton’s play The Philanthropist at the Long Wharf theater, New Haven, Connecticut, in 1992. Photograph: T Charles Erickson.

Gutter Art

Stephen Varble Performing Gutter Art

with Onlooker, New York, 1975

Photograph: Jimmy DeSana

Gelatin silver  print

Two Female Portraits

Portrait of a Lady, ca.1460

by Rogier van der Weyden

Oil on panel

Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman, 1505

by Albrecht Dürer

Oil on Panel

View From The Train

South London, Train To Hastings

Black & White, 14 ‎May, ‎2020

Photograph: Ray Wallis

First Flight

First Airmail Flight, May 1938

Circus People

Circus Artists, ca.1929

Photograph: August Sander

Gelatin silver print

General Sherman

General William Tecumseh Sherman, 1865

Photograph: Mathew Brady

And Back Again

Nude Upside Down and Back Again VIII, 2018

Photograph: Mariken Wessels

Digital print on rag paper

Distanced

Distanced Figures 3, 2020

Artwork by George Condo

Acrylic, pigment stick and metallic paint on linen

(Condo & Burroughs Collaboration)

Gustave Le Gray

Seascape with Sailing Ship and Tugboat, 1857

Photograph: Gustave Le Gray

Albumen silver

The Imperial Yacht, La Reine Hortense, Le Havre, 1856-7

Photograph: Gustave Le Gray

Albumen print

Cyprus

Gunmen, Limassol, Cyprus, 1964

Photograph: Don McCullin

Gelatin silver print

Peace

A woman looks out at the Mediterranean sea from an empty beach as a partial lifting of lockdown restrictions came into effect. 2020, Nice, France. Photograph: Valéry Hache, AFP - Getty Images

(Valles Marineris: The Grand Canyon of Mars)

Rembrandt

Self Portrait at the Age of 34 - 1640

by Rembrandt van Rijn

Oil on canvas

Lion Resting, 1652

by Rembrandt van Rijn

Ink on paper

Angel Woman

Mujer Ángel, Desierto de Sonora, México

(Angel Woman, Sonoran Desert, Mexico),1979

Photograph: Graciela Iturbide

Gelatin silver print

Tangier Beat

"Door to William Burroughs' room in garden, Villa Mouneria, myself Bill and Peter Orlovsky, probably leaving to take walk on Boulevard Pasteur & down to Soco Chico for mint tea or Dutch Tony's for supper or dressed up to visit Bowles or get mail at Consulate. My sunglasses lowered for camera in whose hands?" Tangier 1961, July or June. Photograph: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries/Allen Ginsberg Estate.

Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman's Untitled #574, 2016

Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York

Cindy Sherman, American artist, photographer and film maker, on a visit to the Edinburgh Film Festival in 1997. Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian.