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| Hans Namuth Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Tony Smith 1951 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Kay Bell Reynal Max Weber 1952 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Kay Bell Reynal Mark Rothko 1952 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Kay Bell Reynal Hans Hofmann 1952 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Kay Bell Reynal Willem de Kooning 1952 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Raphael Soyer Edward Hopper ca. 1953 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Agnès Varda Alexander Calder with Mobile in Paris 1954 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Photographer Jan Gelb and Minna Citron at Artists Studio, Old Boathouse, Provincetown, Mass. 1954 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Joe Schwartz Edward Weston at home in Carmel with Paula Schwartz ca. 1955 gelatin silver print National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington DC |
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| Henriette Wyeth Andrew Wyeth 1956 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Henri Cartier-Bresson Edward Steichen 1956 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Arthur Swoger Frank O'Hara, Elaine de Kooning and Franz Kline at the Cedar Tavern, Greenwich Village 1957 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Charles Bush Self Portrait ca. 1957 oil on panel Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Francis Bacon Self Portrait 1958 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Imogen Cunningham Minor White 1959 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Irving Penn Edward Steichen, New York 1959 platinum-palladium print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Howard Wise Gallery (New York) Emilio Vedova painting Vitalità nell'Arte 1959 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
Beauty
Liberal Nature did dispence
To all things Arms for their defence;
And some she arms with sinewy force,
And some with swiftness in the course;
Some with hard Hoofs, or forked claws,
And some with Horns, or tusked jaws.
And some with Scales, and some with Wings,
And some with Teeth, and some with Stings.
Wisdom to Man, she did afford,
Wisdom for Shield, and Wit for Sword.
What to beauteous Woman-kind,
What Arms, what Armour has she assigned?
Beauty is both; for with the Faire
What Arms, what Armour can compare?
What Steel, what Gold, or Diamond,
More Impassible is found?
And yet what Flame, what Lightning ere
So great and Active force did bear?
They are all weapon, and they dart
Like Porcupines from every part.
Who can, alas, their strength express,
Arm'd, when they themselves undress,
Cap a pe with Nakedness?
– from Anacreontea (short anonymous ancient Greek poems in the spirit of Anacreon)
as translated by Abraham Cowley (1656)