Barn Owl

A barn owl (Tyto alba) just about to pose

on the falconer's hand, 18 October, 2014

Photo: Carlos Delgado

At The Races

Three Women at the Races, ca.1885

by Edgar Degas

Pastel on paper

Fire Eater

Fire Eater at a Carnival - Palisades Park, N.J. 1957

Photo: Diane Arbus

Gelatin silver print

Hastings

Yachts Starting - Hastings, England, ca.1895

Photochrom Colour Print

(Library of Congress)

New Brighton

Girl Serving Ice Cream, New Brighton, 1983

Photo: Martin Parr

Archival Pigment Print

Desert Hell

Desert Hell, Kuwait, 1991

Photo: Sebastião Salgado

Gelatin silver print

The Good Reputation Sleeping

La Buena Fama Durmiendo

(The Good Reputation Sleeping) 1939

Photo: Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Gelatin silver print

Pluto

Pluto's Sputnik Planum

Image Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins U.APL, Southwest Research Inst.

(Astronomy Picture of the Day)

Norman Mailer

American Author, Norman Mailer, 1964

Photo: Arnold Newman

Gelatin silver print

Urville

Urville, 2006

(Urville-Nacqueville, Normandy)

Photo: Jane and Louise Wilson

Gelatin silver print

Joseph Beuys

German Artist, Joseph Beuys, 1970

Photo: Robert Lebeck

Gelatin silver print

Women Fencing

Two women fencing, June 16, 1891

Unidentified Photographer

Tintype

Joseph Slade

Joseph Slade, 1816

by Ammi Phillips

Oil on canvas

Porto Portugal

Unloading Salt - Porto, Portugal, 1939

Photo: Nicolás Muller

German Photography

Widow and her Sons, ca.1921

Photo: August Sander

Gelatin silver print on paper

White Masks

Two Men in White Masks, Cuzco, Peru, 1948

Photo: Irving Penn

Gelatin Silver Print

Mighty Waltzer

Mighty Waltzer

Elephant and Castle, London, 1952

Photo: Colin O'Brien

Karen & Lesa

Untitled, 1974

(Karen Chatham, left, with the artist’s cousin Lesa Aldridge,

in Memphis, Tennessee)

Photo: William Eggleston

Dye transfer print

The Anarchist Beaulieu

Henry, Felix, Camille, Beaulieu. 23 years old, born on

30/11/70 in Paris Ve. Accountant. Anarchist. 23/05/94

Photo: Alphonse Bertillon, 1894

Albumen silver print from glass negative

Bonnie & Clyde

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow

Posing in front of a 1932 Ford V-8 automobile, ca.1933

Photo by one of the  Barrow gang