Comme une Piste de Cirque Eclairee par un Projecteur Apparaisse la Vulgaire Bougie de Cuisine avec la Flamme
Missouri Ozarks
Untitled Abstraction
Portrait of Philippe Halsman—Burning the Candle at Both Ends
Chateau Amboise, Sculpture of Chapel Door
Untitled Photogram
Sand Dunes, Amargosa Desert, Nevada 1948
Hands of Robert Howard Carving, San Francisco
Jackson Pollock in his Studio
Cyclamen
West Front of Zuni [Pueblo]
Untitled [Button & Thread Seller, Lower East Side, New York City]
Around Larkin Street (there are bars...)
Diego Rivera [1886-1957]
Untitled [Duck Eggs / 85 Cents a Dozen]
Nie ! Ãno ? ĀĀĀ [!No! Yes? Yes!!!]
Reginald Marsh [1898-1954] Drawing in His Studio
A Thirteen Year Old Grocery Boy, Maryland
Steichen Jumping, New York
Grand Canon of the Colorado, Mouth of Kanab Wash, Looking West
Gutzon Borglum [1871-1971] in His Studio
Arkansas Family. Seven Months in California. Washing Dishes
Shelter Cove [Boats]
Peace, Peace, But There Is No Peace
Clara Taggert McChesney
Route 70, Missouri
MacAllister Street, San Francisco
[Still/Video Performance]
Venice, California [Backyard-Venice West]
Key Transit System / “F” Train to San Francisco
Entraygues, France
Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Carl Ferdinand Wimar [1828-1863]
Fille de Joix, Rue Quincampoix
Barnett Newman [1905-1970]
Christ (Detail), January 1987
The Condensing Tower
Dorian Leigh and Maurice Tillet
Calaveras [The Original Big Tree]
Double-Feature

Brassai

· Comme une Piste de Cirque Eclairee par un Projecteur Apparaisse la Vulgaire Bougie de Cuisine avec la Flamme · Vintage ferrotyped silver print · 1930

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