Once we were in a drug store and my mother and I were standing to one side while my father yelled at a clerk. Another clerk asked my mother, “Who is that horrible man? Every time he comes in here there’s an argument.” “That’s my husband,” my mother told the clerk. Yet, I remember another time. He was working as a milkman and made early morning deliveries. One morning he awakened me. “Come on, I want to show you something.” I walked outside with him. I was wearing my pajamas and slippers. It was still dark, the moon was still up. We walked to the milk wagon which was horsedrawn. The horse stood very still. “Watch,” said my father. He took a sugar cube, put it in his hand and held it out to the horse. The horse ate it out of his palm. “Now you try it…” He put a sugar cube in my hand. It was a very large horse. “Get closer! Hold out your hand!” I was afraid the horse would bite my hand off. The head came down; I saw the nostrils; the lips pulled back, I saw the tongue and the teeth, and then the sugar cube was gone. “Here. Try it again…” I tried it again. The horse took the sugar cube and waggled his head. “Now,” said my father, “I’ll take you back inside before the horse shits on you.”

- Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye, 1982

The Blue Lamp(1950)

Edward Burra (1905-1976), The Snack Bar, 1930.oil on canvas, 76 x 56 cm

Esquire, 1976-1979

Half and Half, Self Portrait, Photo by Man Ray, 1943

- Are all American officers so ill-mannered? - Yeah, about 99 percent. 

10 Caps from The Great Escape (1963) directed by John Sturges

Ben Shahn, "A Visual Analysis of the Characters from Hamlet", Esquire, 1959

There’s too many smart guys around here, I’m glad I’m a dummy!

10 Caps from Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) directed by John Sturges

Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan with a medley of Jimmie Rodger tunes, February 1969.

Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917-2000), Supermarket - Celebration, 1994. Gouache on paper, 66 x 52.1 cm.

Moses, 1954, Marc Chagall

Teen party

(Nina Leen. 1947)

Shock Corridor(1963)

David Gentleman - Paris, Musée Picasso, 1990. Watercolour on paper.

Stephen Shore, 1972-1973