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| Sally Mann Jessie #25 2004 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Alex Katz Kenneth Koch 1970 lithograph National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| John Gutmann Memory 1939 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| David Park Portrait of Richard Diebenkorn 1958 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Minoan Culture Woman's Face 1600-1450 BC painted plaster wall-fragment Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Robert Heinecken Connie Chung, television broadcaster 1986 inkjet print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Ansel Adams Marble Head and Leaf, San Francisco 1961 Polaroid Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Anonymous American Photographer Eisenhower Banner in Production 1952 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Anonymous French Artist Study Head of an Abbess 17th century oil on paper Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Diane Arbus Woman in a Rose Hat N.Y.C. 1966 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Anonymous Italian Makers True Effigy of the Face of Christ 17th century etching and engraving (advertising the print shop of Pietro Tamolla in Piazza Barberini, Rome) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Bruce Bernard Portrait of Francis Bacon 1984 silver bromide print Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| William Klein Smoke + Veil, Paris 1958 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Lorenzo di Credi Head of an Old Man before 1537 drawing British Museum |
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| Barbara Balmer Self Portrait on a Frosty Friday 1995 oil on board Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Ernest Bloch Suffragette ca. 1925-26 watercolor and ink on paper Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
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| Albrecht Dürer Portrait of artist Conrad Merkel (friend of Dürer) 1508 drawing British Museum |
The line of our lives is drawn with white and black vicissitudes, wherein the extremities hold seldom one complexion. That young men are fortunate and perform notable actions is no observation of deep wonder, they having the strength of their fates before them, nor yet acte their parts in the world for which they were chiefly brought into it; whereas men of yeares seeme to be beyond the vigour of their fortunes, and the high designes of the world providentially disposed unto ages best agreeable unto them. And therefor many brave men discovering that their fates grew faynt, or feeling their declination, have timely withdrawn themselves from great attempts, and escaped the ends of mightie men disproportionable to their beginnings; wisely stopping about the meridian of their felicites, and unwilling to hazard the favours of the descending wheel, or to fight downward in the setting arch of fortune. But magnanimous and high flown thoughts have so dimmed the eyes of many, that forgetting the very essence of fortune and vicissitude of good and evil, they conceive no bottom of felicity, and so are tempted into mightie actions reserved for their destructions. Whereof I that have not seen the sixtieth part of time have beheld great examples.
– Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)