A driver in sunglasses and hat smiles from the passenger seat of a limousine. This black and white photograph is part of the series, The Beverly Hills Essay 1975.
Black-and-white photography; Limousines; Professional motor vehicle drivers
Joan Crawford in profile, poses gazing over her left shoulder with her arm obscuring her mouth and hand above her head vanishing into the darkness behind her. The print is signed by the photographer and numbered 145 of 190.
Black-and-white photography; Motion picture actors and actresses; Crawford, Joan, 1908-1977
In the lower left corner of the image, two birds of prey seem to be in flight with wings out stretched. In the upper right background, a man with his head down and arms behind him appears to be holding or hanging from a tree trunk.
Black-and-white photography; Birds of prey; Birds-Flight; Wings (Anatomy); Owls; Hawks; Men
A view through an open doorway of what looks to be a bathroom or outhouse of an abandoned building. This black and white image was taken on a shoot with friend and fellow photographer and artist, Aaron Siskind.
People walking up and sitting on the steps to the British Museum seem not to notice the tall female figure in a long black dress standing facing them. The figure is most likely Weems. The stairs cut midway through the image on a horizontal line....
Black-and-white photography; Women artists, Black; Women, Black, in art; Columns; Stairs; Dresses; British Museum
Herman Leonard captured the great jazz icons of the mid-20th century. The large frame of this portrait of Duke Ellington in profile at the piano takes an audience's eyeview. Fanning across the image from the upper-right hand corner, the spotlight's...
A woman in a white dress and scarf bends over holding a ball placed in a shelf under a full dish rack. Behind the objects is a wood wall that looks to have headless and partially nude female figures with arms outstretched painted on it.
From the series, Last Light: Antarctic Photographs, taken when Campbell traveled to the Ross Sea region of Antarctica. "The series makes allusion to the interconnectedness of natural systems and human intervention and complicates the simplistic...
Black-and-white photography; Arctic regions; Ecology; Ross Sea (Antarctica); Snow; Ice
