Kafka's Apartment

Water Lily, 1880. Martin Johnson Heade. Oil on canvas.

Entrance to the Village of Osny, 1882-83. Paul Gauguin. Oil on canvas.

A photographer capturing a striking close-up portrait of a Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus). The largest of the pelican species. The video cuts from the photographer's perspective to the final high-resolution shot—a stunning, highly detailed macro portrait of the pelican's face.

San Francisco, 1966. William Gedney. Gelatin silver print.

Winter Dory, King's Beach, Swampscott, Massachusetts, 1880. Charles Edwin Lewis Green. Oil on canvas.

A man painting Notre-Dame Cathedral in July 1945 from the banks of the Seine River, 1945. AFP. Silver print on baryta paper

The Pastrycook, 1928. August Sander. Gelatin silver

A Rose, 1907. Thomas P. Anshutz. Oil on canvas.

We catastrophise and we exaggerate. Our nightmares take on an entire weight of their own.”

Sander captured this photograph in 1930, during the twilight of the Weimar Republic. Just three years later, the Nazi regime came to power, completely upending the framework of institutional care.

Cabana, 1979. Andy Sweet. Chromogenic print.

The Harvest, 1866. Leon Augustin Lhermitte. Oil on canvas.

— Ray Bradbury

Dragon Group Seal, 18th century. Japanese boxwood (tsuge) netsuke designed specifically with a functional seal (hanko) base.

Jeunes filles célibataires déposent une gerbe pour la Sainte-Catherine, Paris, 1957 Moderne. Janine Niépce. Gelatin silver print.