From the Back Window - 291 is a black and white photograph taken by Alfred Stieglitz in 1915. The picture was taken at night from a back window of his 291 gallery in New York.

Lady and Her Horse on a Snowy Day by Félix Thiollier - 1899

Josephine Baker by Stanislaus Julian Walery - 1926

Hilma af Klint in Her Studio, unknown photographer - 1895

Hilma af Klint by unknown photographer - c. 1901

Photograph of Silent Movie Actresses Shirley Mason and Viola Dana sharing a kiss - c.1919

Vaslav Nijinsky by Frances Turner - 1915

Pedestrians Walking along Carnaby Street in London - 1972

Samurai in Armour by Kusakabe Kimbei - c.1880.

Kusakabe Kimbei was a Japanese photographer. He usually went by his given name, Kimbei, because his clientele, mostly non-Japanese-speaking foreign residents and visitors, found it easier to pronounce than his family name.

Born: 27 November 1841, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
Died: 19 April 1934, Ashiya, Hyogo, Japan

Japanese Toilet by Kusakabe Kimbei - 1890s

Kusakabe Kimbei was a Japanese photographer. He usually went by his given name, Kimbei, because his clientele, mostly non-Japanese-speaking foreign residents and visitors, found it easier to pronounce than his family name.

Born: 27 November 1841, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
Died: 19 April 1934, Ashiya, Hyogo, Japan

Group of Young Women by Kusakabe Kimbei - c.1880.

Kusakabe Kimbei was a Japanese photographer. He usually went by his given name, Kimbei, because his clientele, mostly non-Japanese-speaking foreign residents and visitors, found it easier to pronounce than his family name.

Born: 27 November 1841, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
Died: 19 April 1934, Ashiya, Hyogo, Japan

Home Bathing - Attributed to Yamamoto - 1880s.

Kusakabe Kimbei was a Japanese photographer. He usually went by his given name, Kimbei, because his clientele, mostly non-Japanese-speaking foreign residents and visitors, found it easier to pronounce than his family name.

Born: 27 November 1841, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
Died: 19 April 1934, Ashiya, Hyogo, Japan

Two Chinese Men in Matching Traditional Dress, by Raimund von Stillfried - 1870s

Isadora Dancers by Arnold Genthe - c.1920.

The dancers are wearing Mariano Fortuny ‘Delphos’ gowns. These couture gowns today can cost up to several thousand dollars. Mariano introduced this gown in 1907 and it was very much in style up until the 1930s.

'A Sea of Steps,' Wells Cathedral, Stairs to Chapter House and Bridge to Vicar's Close by Frederick H. Evans - 1903

The stunning Wells Cathedral: A Sea of Steps is one of some 200 Evans photographs in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. Produced in 1903, the image captures the stairs to the Cathedral’s chapter house, and the bridge to the vicar’s close. The angles seem odd, the composition almost abstract. As Evans himself described it:

The steps now rise steeply before one, and the extraordinary wear in the top portions leading to the corridor, is now shown just as it appeals to the eye in the original subject, a veritable sea of steps. The passing over them of hundreds of footsteps during the many years the stair has served its purpose have worn them into a semblance of broken waves, low-beating on a placid shore. The beautiful curve of the steps on the right as they rise to the height of the Chapter House floor, is for all the world like the surge of a great wave that will presently break and subside into smaller ones. - National Gallery of Canada

Vintage Halftone Collage by Karel Teige - 1945

Collage by Karel Teige - c.1944

Collage II by Karel Teige - 1947

Collage 327 by Karel Teige - c 1947

Collage 350 by Karel Teige - 1948

Collage 288 by Karel Teige - 1943