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Photographs of London’s Kings Cross Before the Change – c.1990

Before the money moved in, Kings Cross was a place for born-and-bred locals, clubs and crime ...

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Photos of Topless Dancers and Bottomless Drinks At New York City’s Raciest Clubs – c. 1977

See what really went on during that time in NYC's topless go-go bars ...

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Debbie Harry And Me – Shooting The Blondie Singer in 1970s New York City

Chris Stein 's photographs of Debbie Harry and friends take us back to a great era of music ...

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Jack London’s Extraordinary Photos of London’s East End in 1902

In a book that became to be known as 'The People of the Abyss' London described the time when he lived in the Whitechapel district sleeping in workhouses, so-called doss-houses and even on the streets. ...

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Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

These portrait photographs of Russia's ruling Romanovs were taken in 1903 at the Winter Palace in majestic. St. Petersburg. Knowing what was to follow, the venue was apposite. St Petersburg is the city Christopher Hitchens called "an apparent temple of civilization: the polished window between Russia and Europe... the ...

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Eric Ravilious’ Visionary Views of England

"I never saw Eric Ravilious depressed. Even when he fell in love - and that was frequently - he was never submerged by disappointment. Cheerfulness kept creeping in." - Douglas Percy Bliss on his friend Eric Ravilious from their time at the Royal College of Art Eric Ravilious loved ...

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Photographs of the Wonderful Diana Rigg (20 July 1938 – 10 September 2020)

Yes I have a dark side, doesn’t everyone? I’ve played a lot of evil, ball-breaking women. And, if you’re honest, you’ll just drag up from the depths all the times you’ve hated or felt passionately about something and play it. ...

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Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

Ephemeral, disposable, they served only one purpose—to let someone know "I'm here. I'm thinking of you" - Pablo Iglesias Maurer ...

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Sex, Drugs, Jazz and Gangsters – The Disreputable History of Gerrard Street in London’s Chinatown

At the end of October 1959 in the basement of 39 Gerrard Street - an unexceptional and damp space that was once a sort of rest room for taxi drivers and an occasional tea bar - Ronnie Scott opened his first jazz club. Along with Ronnie himself and his ...

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The Brilliant Avant-Garde Movie Posters of the Soviet Union

"It is time for art to flow into the organisation of life." - Alexander Rodchenko, 1921 ...

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