Splendor Solis  

1582 

by Salomon Trismosin

Phillip Guston 

Self Portrait

Gilbert Stuart 

Self Portrait

Woman 

by Edward Munch  

1920

"To take a photograph is to hold one’s breath when all faculties converge in a face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy." 

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

The Leader of The Luddites 

1812

Gino Severini  

Self Portrait  

1909