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| Russell Lynes Eye and Brain 1937 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Edward Weston Bedpan 1930 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Edward Wadsworth Composition: Crank and Chain 1932 tempera on board Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Georges Vantongerloo Composition 13478/15 1937 oil on panel Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Edouard Vuillard The Visit 1931 mixed media on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Wolfgang Suschitzky Wyndham's Theatre, Charing Cross Road 1936 gelatin silver print Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Weegee Summer on the Lower East Side 1937 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Pavel Tchelitchew Final Sketch for Phenomena 1938 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| August Sander Zwei Unterhaltungs Zünstler ca. 1931 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Mariano Fortuny Delphos Dress 1936 pleated silk National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Edith Tudor-Hart Demonstration, South Wales ca. 1935 gelatin silver print Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Brassaï Looking through Pont Marie to Pont Louis-Philippe, Paris ca. 1930-32 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Theodore Roszak Musicians 1932 gouache, watercolor and felt pen on paper Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Pablo Picasso Lee Miller 1937 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Joseph Vogel Escape 1933 screenprint Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Henri Cartier-Bresson Andalusia, Spain 1933 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Rudy Burckhardt Paris 1934 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
The whole Creation is a mystery and particularly that of man. At the blast of his mouth were the rest of the creatures made, and at his bare word they started out of nothing. But in the frame of man (as the text describes it) he was driven to a second and harder creation of a substance like himself, an incorruptible and immortal soul. . . . In our study of Anatomy there is a mass of mysterious Philosophy, and such as reduced the very Heathens to Divinity; yet amongst all those rare discoveries and curious pieces I find in the fabric of man, I do not so much content my self as in that I find not, that is, no Organ or proper instrument for the rational soul. For in the brain, which we term the seat of reason, there is not any thing of moment more than I can discover in the cranie of a beast: and this is a sensible and no inconsiderable argument of the inorganity of the soul, at least in that sense we usually so receive it. Thus we are men, and we know not how; there is something in us, that can be without us, and will be after us; though it is strange that it hath no history, what it was before us, nor cannot tell how it entered in us.
– Sir Thomas Browne, from Religio Medici (1642)