Stinson Beach, California, 1973. Photo by Elliott Erwitt/Magnum
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Make a donationStinson Beach, California, 1973. Photo by Elliott Erwitt/Magnum
Photo by Christopher Anderson/Magnum
Notting Hill, London. Photo by Chris Steele-Perkins/Magnum
Detail from The Vision of Saint John (1608-14) by El Greco. Courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Władysławowo beach, Poland, August 2020. Photo by Kacper Kowalski/Panos Pictures
The French aviation pioneers Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Henri Guillaumet. Photo by Roger-Violett/Topfoto
Photo by Harry Gruyaert/Magnum
The cleaner wrasse (pictured here accompanying the larger black-and-white snapper) can seemingly recognise itself in a mirror. Photo by Ullstein Bild/Getty
Photo courtesy Wellcome Images
Why did the woman cross the road? Photo by Harry Gruyaert/Magnum
Detail from Self Portrait (1500) by Albrecht Dürer. The text to the right broadly translates as ‘Thus I, Albrecht Dürer from Nuremberg, created myself with characteristic colours at the age of 28 years.’ Courtesy Wikipedia/Alte Pinakothek München
Photo by Jorge Sanz/SOPA Images/LightRocket Getty
Detail of Picture from 8 Sides (1930-6), by Kurt Schwitters; oil and wood relief on panel. Courtesy Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Photo posed by a model. Phillip Suddick/Getty
Photo by Stephan Vanfleteren/Panos
Déesse V Nine Goodbye Kisses by Delphine Lebourgeois
Boston Marathon winner Yuki Kawauchi runs to work in his home town of Kuki, Japan. Photograph © Shiho Fukada/The New York Times/Redux/Headpress
Venus works it out. Photo by Glyn Kirk/AFP/Getty Images
The Golden Rock at Shwe Pyi Daw, Kyaiktiyo, Burma (now Myanmar), in 1978. According to legend, the rock is balanced on a strand of Buddha’s hair. Photo by Hiroji Kubota/Magnum