Air Mail

First Round Flight - 19th April 1930

Real Colour

Black Orpheus, 1969

by Humbert Howard

Oil and collage on Masonite

Medusae, 2018

by Sally Gall

Pigment print

(From Heavenly Creatures series)

Maud

Maud Wagner, circus performer and tattooist. Maud Stevens Wagner, thought to be America's first female tattoo artist. 1907. Plaza Gallery, Los Angeles. (Shorpy)

Fighters

Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1985

Photograph: Michael Halsband

Gelatin silver print

Mack Sennett Girls

"Mack Sennett girls," Washington, D.C., ca.1919

An assortment of the theatrical impresario's bathing beauties

(National Photo Co.)

(Shorpy)

(Saturn's Northern Hexagon)

Lennon & Jagger

John Lennon and Mick Jagger

in Los Angeles, 1974

Photograph: Ron Galella

Film Fun

Film Fun, January 1937

Artwork by Enoch Bolles

Film Fun, April 1933

Artwork by Enoch Bolles

Gaga

Lady Gaga, 2009

Photograph: Derrick Santini

American Civil War

Portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee, officer of 

the Confederate Army, March 1864

Photograph: Julian Vannerson

Portrait of Pvt. Edwin Francis Jemison, 2nd Louisiana Infantry Regiment, ca.1861. He served in the Peninsula campaign under General J.B. Magruder and was killed in the battle of Malvern Hill, July 1862.

Stephen & Rusty

Stephen, 2009

Photograph: Catherine Opie

From the series High School Football, 2007-2009

Rusty, 2008

Photograph: Catherine Opie

From the series High School Football, 2007-2009

Andrzej Dragan

Mads Mikkelsen, 2007

Photograph: Andrzej Dragan

Pieta, 2010

Photograph: Andrzej Dragan

Andrzej Dragan’s portraits terrify on one hand and addict on the other. One has a strong need to come back and penetrate inhumanly realistic elements of the photographs going deeper and deeper. Power and clarity of the detail, and crystal purity of the color, sober and gloomy light are the elements of Dutch paintings. This is probably the source of the impact of Andrzej’s photographs. Portraying so well-known characters as David Lynch, Mads Mikkelsen or Jerzy Urban in the manner of old, Rembrandt style surprises the viewer used to contemporary photography which is so close to spontaneous expression, escaping from reality through exaggerated effects such as movement, blurring the image or taking the colors down to unnatural scale. Dragan’s works remain inside one’s mind for a long time and most of all – they stand out among thousands of others images surrounding us.
Tomek Sikora

Farm Children

Farm Children, 1913

Photo: August Sander

Gelatin silver print

Freaky Cats

The whitest white cat I've ever met, 2017

by Bendix Harms

Oil on canvas

Tears of No Return, 2020

by Bendix Harms

Oil on canvas

Capote

Truman Capote, 1947

Photograph: Henri-Cartier Bresson

Truman Capote, 1965

Photograph: Irving Penn

Closed Contact

Closed Contact #8, 1995- 96, C-Print

Jenny Saville & Glen Luchford

After having observed the operations of reconstructive surgery and aesthetic surgery, acclaimed figurative painter Jenny Saville was eager to express the violence and anesthetized pain of this experience in her own work. She and fashion photographer Glenn Luchford thus began an artistic collaboration that captures the full range of color, tonality, and topography of live flesh, in large photographic tableaux that portray Saville's own body.

Turkey Dinner 69c

A clown at a lunch counter

Reno, Nevada, USA, 1963

Photograph: Thomas Hoepker

(Magnum Photos, Courtesy of Bildhalle)

Six Chinese Gentlemen

Opium smokers, China, ca.1880

Photograph: Lai Afong

Albumen print

Observation Balloon

German tethered balloon being raised for observation purposes during the Champagne campaign (observation balloon being maneuvered through a field of haystacks by German soldiers in the Champagne region of France during World War I). France ca.1915.

Gelatin silver print from the F.J.M. Rehse Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik, München.  (Shorpy)

Goldfish

Goldfish, 1993

by Yue Minjun

Oil on canvas

Leipzig 45

A U.S. soldier stands in the middle of rubble in the Monument of the Battle of the Nations in Leipzig after they attacked the city on April 18, 1945. The huge monument commemorating the defeat of Napoleon in 1813 was one of the last strongholds in the city to surrender. One hundred and fifty SS fanatics with ammunition and foodstuffs stored in the structure to last three months dug themselves in and were determined to hold out as long as their supplies. American First Army artillery eventually blasted the SS troops into surrender. Photograph: Eric Schwab/AFP/Getty Images.