Subway Portrait, 1941
Walker Evans

Portrait, 1976
Gerald Incandela

every hair on your head is counted
you are worth hundreds of sparrows

sparklehorse

Whisky (2004)
Juan Pablo Rebello
Pablo Stoll

After Sunset, 1892
Thomas Wilmer Dewing

Late Fragment

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.

Raymond Carver

Hungary, 1964
Elliott Erwitt

Interior with a Woman in a Wicker Chair, 1920
Pierre Bonnard

Henri Matisse and Model in Chair, Venice, 1944
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Untitled (Circus), 1936
Ilse Bing

Oh, 1992


Us, 1994


Exit, 1990


Peas, Asparagus, 1991

Ed Ruscha

Moulin Rouge, Paris, 1931
Ilse Bing

Untitled (View from Tina Modotti's Window, Mexico City), ca. 1927
Tina Modotti

Untitled, ca. 1920s
Frantisek Drtikol

Dominique in a Straw Hat, 1911
Maurice Denis

Untitled, ca. 1930s
Dorothea Lange

Gyroscope

I place this within the first order
of wonders: a ten-year-old girl
alone on a sunny, glassed-in porch
in February, the world beyond
the windows slowly tipping forward
into spring, her thin arms held out
in the sleepwalker pose, and pinched
and stretched between her fingers,
a length of common grocery twine
upon which smoothly spins and leans
one of the smaller worlds we each
at one time learn to master, the last
to balance so lightly in our hands.

Ted Kooser

Jenny, 1937
Olive Cotton

Margaret Burne-Jones, ca. 1890
Frederick Hollyer