#11

31 Days #11, 2011

Photograph: Chris Lowell

Gelatin silver print

Easy Riders

Easy Riders, Los Angeles, 2006

Photo: Ellen Von Unwerth

Dada

Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Beer-Belly of the Weimar Republic, 1919. Collage of pasted papers, by Hannah Höch, 90 x 144 cm.

(Untitled (Dada), ca.1922 by Hannah Höch. Cut-and-pasted printed and coloured paper on board. 24.8 × 33 cm.

Tristram Kenton

Eddie Izzard, 1997

Photograph: Tristram Kenton

Darcey Bussell in Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra, 1989

Photograph: Tristram Kenton

William Burroughs & Friends

William Burroughs, Paul Bowles and Allen Ginsberg outside Burroughs’ villa garden, Tangier Morocco, May 1961.

Allen writes to Jack Kerouac a year later “Bill now working on advanced electrical cut ups, said poetry and words were finished, didn’t even read Kaddish, he was doing a thousand interesting things …  Bill had declared independence from all passions, affections, mayas, thoughts and language and was sitting around listening to the messages of static on transistor radios and staring at stroboscopes and taking photographs of photographs of his own and making super collages (all developing from you remember the brown collages of old photos of Vienna and Tangier he had on wall last time in Tangier?  Well photos of photos of that trying to get the message and essence of all that reduced to a blur and he’d sit and stare at that and point out interesting blobs and ghosts and phantoms, plus new photos of collages of newspapers and Time, Khrushchev’s mouth in Kennedy’s forehead, - all the time trying by means of language cut ups and mind consciousness cut-ups to track down the original master agents of the cosmos who were using us humans as TV screens to project their schemes – he declaring the universe an Allah-like blank into which these forces had invaded. Actually all pure classical advaita (nondualist) Indic philosophy with really great means for breaking up conceptions. Except he so inhuman it scared me…” 

(Photo snapped by either Peter Orlovsky or Gregory Corso, courtesy Stanford University Libraries. Allen Ginsberg Estate)

The Pistols

Artwork by Jamie Reid

Sex Pistols, Hyde Park, 1977

Photograph: Janette Beckman

Pacifist Demonstrator

Pacifist demonstrating at Santa Monica. 'Waste more land' alludes to the name of the US Commander- in- Chief in Vietnam, General Westmoreland. California, USA. 1968. Photograph: Dennis Stock (Magnum Photos)

(Pluto in Enhanced Colour)

Detective Tales

Detective Tales, November 1944

Cover art is uncredited

Detective Tales, June 1948

Cover art is uncredited

"Great artwork, possibly by the same artist. Any idea who he might be?"

The Amish

From the series The Amish, 1974

Photograph: Timm Rautert

Gelatin silver print

Florida Migrants

Near Shawboro, North Carolina. Group of Florida migrants on their way to Cranbury, New Jersey, to pick potatoes!  July 1940. Photo by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. (Shorpy)

(Mimas in Saturnlight)

Commercial Public House

Commercial, South Bank, Middlesbrough, 1984

Photograph: Graham Smith. (Courtesy Martin Parr Foundation)

Aerial Views

The pier, Clacton-on-Sea, 1938

The Historic England Archive

Montague Grahame-White's steam yacht Alacrity

Brownsea Island, Dorset, April 1933

Bacon & Beard

Francis Bacon Self-Portrait, 1973

Oil on canvas

Peter Beard's photograph of Francis Bacon on Beard's roof at 80 Narrow Street, London (soon to be lost gambling), during the dead elephant interviews, March, 1972.

True Love

True Love Leaves No Traces, 2013

Bed, closet, rope, 195 x 140 x 90 cm.

by Tchelet Ram

(Photo: Ariel Reichman)

Man & Woman

Claudia Schiffer, Guess Magazine ad campaign, 1989

Photograph: Ellen von Unwerth

Untitled, ca.1948

Photograph: George Platt Lynes

Gelatin silver print

Facing Up

Arthur Tress, "Secret Conversation, New York" (1980), Facing Up series. Arthur Tress Photography Collection, University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

William Henry Fox Talbot

Group photograph with Irish poet Thomas Moore in the centre. 

Dated April 1844. Photograph: WilliamHenry Fox Talbot

The SS Great Britain in dock at low tide, Bristol, 1843-45

Photograph: William Henry Fox Talbot

Shorty

Shorty, 1963

by James Wyeth

Oil on canvas - 18 x 22 inches

Harlem

Two Girls from a Marching Band, Harlem, NY, 1990

Photograph: Dawoud Bey

Inkjet print

John Duncan Fergusson

Poise, 1916

by John Duncan Fergusson

Oil on canvas

The Chinese Coat, 1908

by John Duncan Fergusson

Oil on canvas