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An interior view of the library at Holland House in Kensington, London, after it was extensively damaged by a Molotov ‘Breadbasket’ fire bomb. I love how the men continue to browse the shelves regardless (Photo by Central Press)

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Zach Galifianakis photographed by Terry Richardson for GQ, August 2010

Babe Paley, Vogue 1946

Penelope Tree by Richard Avedon

Jim Dow. Hagan’s Dairy Bar, Bardstown, Kentucky, 1980.

“My interest in photography centers on its capacity for exact description… . I use photography to try to record the manifestations of human ingenuity and spirit still remaining in our country’s everyday landscape.” —Jim Dow 

Jim Dow’s interest in those places where people enact their everyday rituals, from the barbershop to the baseball park, has guided the path of his photographic career. Dow is concerned with capturing “human ingenuity and spirit” in endangered regional traditions—a barbershop with a heavy patina of town life covering the walls, the opulent time capsule of an old private New York club, the densely packed display of smoking pipes in an English tobacconist shop—all artifacts of a vanishing era. 

John Ford, director, Bel Air, California, 4 November, 1972 - by Richard Avedon

Francis Bacon in his studio, 7 Reese Mews off the Old Brompton Road London (a painting later destroyed), 1972 by Peter Beard

Peter Beard photograph of Francis Bacon on his roof at 80 Narrow Street, London, 1972