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‘The Cathedral of Electrons’ – The Story of Battersea Power Station

Most of the extraordinary detail inside the power station, that once made the London writer Felix Barker to compare the power station to the great church of Sainte-Cécile at Albi in the south of France, has now gone – obliterated. ...

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At Home with the Rolling Stones in 1965

At the cusp of mega-fame photographs of the Rolling Stones in their respective homes by Danish photographer Bent Rej. ...

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61 Sensational Soviet Space Posters

In the 1950s and 1960s the Soviet Union assured the great unwashed that ploughing fortunes into the space race was good for them ...

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27 Snapshots of Manchester In The 1960s

37 Snapshots of Manchester In The 1970s Via: MMU

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1980s Teenagers and Their Bedroom Walls

"Advice my father gave me: never take liquor into the bedroom. Don’t stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect" - Kurt Vonnegut ...

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Feed Sack Fashions And Patterns of Depression Era America

During the Depression people used cotton flour bags and feed sacks to make clothes, curtains, diapers, awnings and other household items. Manufacturers got wind of their bags' other uses and began decorating them. Color and patterns added a little style and joy to the common sack dress. Of course, it wasn't all altruistic. ...

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I Am Not A Wedding Photographer : Fabulous Portraits of the British Enjoying A Bit of A Do

British photographer Ian Weldon shows us joy in the dull bits at British weddings ...

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A Gay Wedding In Philadelphia 1957

Found photos of a gay wedding in the USA decades before it was legal ...

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Stickers : More Stuck-Up Crap

A look at the use of audacious and eye-catching stickers in art, design, fashion, music and social activism ...

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Photographs of ‘El Segundo Barrio’ of El Paso in 1972 by Danny Lyon

Documerica was a program sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to "photographically document ...

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Beatus of Facundus : A Vivid Illustrated Guide to the Apocalypse (1047)

A monk's vivid illustrations of the The Revelation of John ...

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Andrei Tarkovsky : My Top 10 Films

In 1972, the great Russian director listed his favourite films ...

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Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

Part of the Documerica project - a program sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to "photographically document subjects of environmental concern" in the United States from about 1972 to 1977. ...

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Gimme Shelter From Hell’s Angels: Meredith Hunter, Alan Passaro And The Rolling Stones Horror Show

On December 6 1969 Meredith Hunter was stabbed to death by a Hell's Angel at The Rolling Stones’ Altamont Free Concert... ...

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Rocketman: Elton John And Mr Freedom’s Winged Boots (1971)

During the production of Elton John biopic Rocketman there were plans for a scene set in London’s groundbreaking pop-art boutique Mr Freedom in the early 70s. This was to set up the central character’s visual transformation during visits to the store under the influence of its charismatic founder and frontman, the late, lamented Tommy Roberts ...

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The Chattanooga Sit-Ins – February 1960

On February 19 around 200 black students began a peaceful protest against segregation at four businesses on one block in Chattanooga, Tennessee ...

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“Actionpacked Gayness” – The First Issues of Gay News from 1972

There are as many laughs to be had in its pages as there are sorrowful stories and angry rants – all of life is in these pages. ...

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Elliott Erwitt: An Itinerant Life In Photographs

"I do not think that you get up in the morning with the goal to take an iconic picture. It simply does not work that way. Perhaps you get lucky enough to get a picture that is good and that gets good use and is then seen by many people. I suppose a picture has to be seen by many people before it can be iconic. That is part of the definition." ...

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