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Three archers, Japan, ca.1860-1900

European Jews on Ellis Island protest against their deportation to Germany, 1936

Black citizens fill out voter registration forms at the Courthouse under a sign warning them the applicants’ names and addresses will be published in the newspapers. Hattiesburg, Forrest County, Mississippi, United States. 1964.

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Liverpool goalkeeper Ray Clemence watches a dog relive itself at West Ham United’s Upton Park, 1977

A female worker cleans the rifling of a 15-inch naval gun after being lifted inside the barrel at the Coventry Ordnance Works during the First World War

A solitary sprinter dashes along surf-scalloped St. Vincent, one of the least visited islands of the Windward islands in the Caribbean

Residents of West Berlin holding up their children to show their grandparents who lived on the eastern side of Berlin Wall

View from My Window, 1935, Florence Henri

‘There’s a concept in art called repoussoir, from the French ‘to push back‘, which refers to the use of foreground devices or objects to draw the viewer’s gaze into an image, towards specific figures or areas in the canvas, creating a sense of perspective, depth of field. I mention it because it’s what came to mind when I first began to consider this image. I thought, oh yes, I see what she’s doing here, drawing our gaze to the beach beyond, the array of fishing boats on the muddy shore…’