X-ray of bound feet, China, 1890-1923.
Source: Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection, Library of Congress

X-ray of bound feet, China, 1890-1923.

Source: Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection, Library of Congress

Platform Mortuary Station 1 for Sydney’s Rookwood Cemetery Railway Line, Australia, ca. 1900.

Platform Mortuary Station 1 for Sydney’s Rookwood Cemetery Railway Line, Australia, ca. 1900.


Francesca Woodman, House #3, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976.

Francesca Woodman, House #3, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976.

Frank G. Carpenter, Eskimo Medicine Man, Alaska, Exorcising Evil Spirits from a Sick Boy/Working to beat the devil, Nushagak, Alaska, ca. 1895.
Source: Library of Congress

Frank G. Carpenter, Eskimo Medicine Man, Alaska, Exorcising Evil Spirits from a Sick Boy/Working to beat the devil, Nushagak, Alaska, ca. 1895.

Source: Library of Congress

Edward S. Curtis, Hamatsa emerging from the woods—Koskimo, 13 November 1914.
Source: Library of Congress

Edward S. Curtis, Hamatsa emerging from the woods—Koskimo, 13 November 1914.

Source: Library of Congress

Mark Kauffman, Hong Kong, March 1947.

Mark Kauffman, Hong Kong, March 1947.

Philippe Halsman and Salvador Dali, Portrait of Marilyn Monroe as Chairman Mao, 1952.
Source: Getty Museum

Philippe Halsman and Salvador Dali, Portrait of Marilyn Monroe as Chairman Mao, 1952.

Source: Getty Museum

Ku Klux Klan members gathered under a burning cross, Denver, Colorado, USA, 1921.
Source: Library of Congress, American Memory Collection

Ku Klux Klan members gathered under a burning cross, Denver, Colorado, USA, 1921.

Source: Library of Congress, American Memory Collection

Louis Daguerre, L’Atelier de l’artiste, France, 1837.
Source: Société française de photographie

Louis Daguerre, L’Atelier de l’artiste, France, 1837.

Source: Société française de photographie