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| Anonymous Italian Sculptor Christ Child in Blessing ca. 1485-1515 marble Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Italian Painter in Bergamo Fanciullo Bacco ca. 1550 oil on panel Palazzo Barberini, Rome |
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| Antoine Le Nain The Young Card-Players 1643 oil on copper Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Benedetto Luti Head of a Page before 1724 oil on canvas Palazzo Corsini, Rome |
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| John Hoppner The Hoppner Children 1791 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Jean-Jacques Henner Alsation Girl 1873 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Joseph Middleton Jopling Midge 1874 watercolor and gouache on paper Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Kusakabe Kimbei Group of Children ca. 1880-90 hand-colored albumen silver print San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Wilhelm von Gloeden Sicilian Child with Flowers 1903 albumen silver print from glass negative Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Heinrich Kühn Two Boys ca. 1907 autochrome Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| John Heartfield Capitalism robs You of the Last Piece of Bread 1932 lithograph (German Communist Party election poster) Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Helen Levitt New York 1938 gelatin silver print San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| William Klein Stickball - West 108th Street - New York 1954 gelatin silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Ralph Eugene Meatyard Untitled ca. 1959 gelatin silver print San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| Nan Goldin Max and Richard, New York City 1983 C-print Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Robert Mapplethorpe Lindsay Key 1985 gelatin silver print Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
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| Sally Mann Dead Duck 1988 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
Now through night's caressing grip
Earth and all her oceans slip,
Capes of China slide away
From her fingers into day
And the Americas incline
Coasts toward her shadow line.
Now the ragged vagrants creep
Into crooked holes to sleep:
Just and unjust, worst and best,
Change their places as they rest:
Awkward lovers lie in fields
Where disdainful beauty yields:
While the splendid and the proud
Naked stand before the crowd
And the losing gambler gains
And the beggar entertains:
May sleep's healing power extend
Through these hours to our friend.
Unpursued by hostile force
Traction engine, bull or horse
Or revolting succubus;
Calmly till the morning break
Let him lie, then gently wake.
– W.H. Auden (1935)