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Bruce Davidson Coney Island Beach 1959 gelatin silver print Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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Roe Ethridge Deborah Muller with Tripod 2008 C-print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Francis Dodd The Doorkeeper 1907 drypoint National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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Boris Chaliapin Tyrone Guthrie 1966 oil on canvas (commissioned by Time magazine) National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Vanessa Bell Mrs St John Hutchinson (mistress of Vanessa Bell's husband Clive) 1915 oil on canvas Tate Britain |
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Ansel Adams Self Portrait 1936 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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Ernest Baker Henry Ford 1941 gouache on board (commissioned by Time magazine) National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Burhan Dogançay Untitled 1969 lithograph Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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attributed to Vittore Carpaccio Portrait of a Venetian Nobleman ca. 1510 oil on panel Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
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Agostino Carracci Portrait of a Man ca. 1584-90 oil on canvas Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma |
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Agnolo Bronzino Portrait of Eleonora da Toledo ca. 1560 oil on panel National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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Jerry Farnsworth Adolf Hitler 1933 oil on paper, mounted on board (commissioned by Time magazine) National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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David Armstrong Tom at East River Park, New York City 1993 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Hazel Larsen Archer Ray Johnson ca. 1948 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Boris Artzybasheff Lee Harvey Oswald 1964 tempera on board (commissioned by Time magazine) National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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Anonymous Photographer for Paris Vogue Françoise Sagan 1954 gelatin silver print Bibliothèque nationale de France |
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Miggs Burroughs Oil executive Gerrit Wagner 1973 tempera on board (commissioned by Time magazine) National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
from Silvae
But he is happy, and you mourn in vain.
He has outsoared the envy of gods and men,
False fortune and the dark and treacherous way,
– Scatheless: he never lived to pray for death,
Nor sinned – to fear her, nor deserved to die.
We that survive him, weak and full of woes,
Live ever with a fearful eye on Death –
The how and when of dying: 'Death' the thunder,
'Death' the wild lightning speaks to us.
– Statius (AD 45-96), translated by H.W. Garrod (1912)