Wednesday, 19 August 2020

Le Monocle


The handsome young woman pictured above is Lulu, the owner of Le Monocle, 1932. Photograph: George Brassaï - Gelatin silver print.


Fat Claude and her Girlfriend at the lesbian club Le Monocle, Paris, 1932.
Photograph: Brassaï - Gelatin silver print.

Tuesday, 18 August 2020

Sickert

La Hollandaise, 1905
by Walter Sickert
Oil on canvas

Brighton Pierrots, 1915
by Walter Sickert
Oil on canvas

Monday, 17 August 2020

New York Dance


Megumi Eda, left, and Theresa Ruth Howard in 'In This Dream That Dogs Me,' at the Duke Theater in New York, Nov. 29, 2005.

Sunday, 16 August 2020

Saturday, 15 August 2020

Zurich

Ballo Acs, Grand Hotel Dolder, Zurich, 1948
Photograph: Jakob Tuggener
Gelatin silver print

Friday, 14 August 2020

Halloween

Edward Simmons, Halloween, 1993
South Bronx H.E.L.P. Shelter, New York
Photograph: Mary Ellen Mark

Thursday, 13 August 2020

Mechanical Pig


Mechanical Pig - Silicone, platinum, fibreglass, metal and electrical components - by Paul McCarthy. Executed in 2003-2005.

Tuesday, 11 August 2020

Childhood

Portrait of young siblings
Germany, ca.1885

Dover Girls
Eastern Docks, Dover, Kent
Photograph: Mike Dugdale - 1967
(Historic Britain category winner)

Monday, 10 August 2020

Sunday, 9 August 2020

Friday, 7 August 2020

Berenice Abbott

Berenice Abbott in Paris in 1928
(Possible Self-Portrait ?)
Keystone - France/Gamma - Keystone, via Getty Images


Old Law Tenements, 35-47 East 1st Street, New York. February 11, 1937. 
Photograph: Berenice Abbott. Gelatin silver print

Thursday, 6 August 2020

Modigliani

Reclining Nude, 1916
Oil on canvas


Amedeo Modigliani, Picasso and André Salmon in front the Café de la Rotonde, Paris. Photo taken by Jean Cocteau in Montparnasse, Paris in 1916.

Wednesday, 5 August 2020

Russian Seamen


Photo shows sailors on the Russian cruiser Rynda, during the Columbian Naval Review of 1893. 8 x 10 in. dry plate glass negative.
(Detroit Publishing Co)

Tuesday, 4 August 2020

Counter Fit


Counter Fit. Photograph: Genevieve Gaignard, 2018. Chromogenic print. 
Courtesy the artist and Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles.

Monday, 3 August 2020

Applying & Applied

Applying Colour, 1982–1985
From 'Looking for Love'
Photograph: Tom Wood
C-print on Fujicolor

Sunbather (Applied)
Marbella, Spain, 1974

Sunday, 2 August 2020

Crawford & Lombard

Publicity photo by George Hurrell


Carole Lombard in a publicity still for the American comedy film 'To Be or Not to Be' - 24 March 1942. Paramount Studios.

Saturday, 1 August 2020

Pie Town People


Jack Whinery, homesteader, and his family, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1939. Photograph: Russell Lee, Colour Slide. (Library Of Congress)

Friday, 31 July 2020

Just Colour

Jump In and Move Around, 1961
Oil on canvas

Flower garden, 1908
Oil on canvas