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Charles Conder: The Bohemian from Down Under–Sex, Disease, Pernod and Painting

Charles Conder: The Bohemian from Down Under–Sex, Disease, Pernod and Painting

The great antipodean actor, writer, genius surrealist comic performer, father and mother of Dame Edna Everage, inventor and cousin twice removed to Sir Les Patterson, Mr. Barry Humphries has long been a fan of the artist Charles Conder. ...
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Buy Prints From Nudes to an Earthquake: The trail-blazing photography of Arnold Genthe

From Nudes to an Earthquake: The trail-blazing photography of Arnold Genthe

Like many other photographers at the time, Genthe documented everything. He was a portrait photographer, a photo-journalist, and an artist. ...
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The World As He Sees It: An Exclusive Interview with Legendary Photographer Jürgen Schadeberg

The World As He Sees It: An Exclusive Interview with Legendary Photographer Jürgen Schadeberg

At the start of his teens, Schadeberg was forced into the Hitler Youth. He hated it and everything it represented. Sometimes he marched backwards, or wore bright colours instead of the standard issue brown shirt. On other occasions he mimicked Charlie Chaplin as der Führer. ...
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Fights, Booze and John Ford’s ‘Greatest Triumph’: ‘The Quiet Man’

Fights, Booze and John Ford’s ‘Greatest Triumph’: ‘The Quiet Man’

Ford wanted everyone to know he was a tough, no-nonsense son-of-a-bitch. He had a sneaking suspicion that making movies might make him seem slightly effete. To counter, fists would fly as the shot glasses clinked. ...
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Meet Rondo Hatton or With a Face like that, You ought to be in Movies

Meet Rondo Hatton or With a Face like that, You ought to be in Movies

His looks fascinated people and he became an iconic cult figure with horror buffs. ...
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Buy Prints Dark Arts: Kawanabe Kyōsai’s Illustrations for ‘The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons’

Dark Arts: Kawanabe Kyōsai’s Illustrations for ‘The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons’

Something caught his foot. He stumbled. Looking down Kyōsai saw a man's severed head. The concept of structure and order no longer made sense. ...
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When Boris Karloff went on a Celebrity Ghost Hunt

When Boris Karloff went on a Celebrity Ghost Hunt

It was an average, normal day in 1950's London when Boris Karloff went on a ghost hunt... ...
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Interior Design: Carol M. Highsmith’s Hallways of America

Interior Design: Carol M. Highsmith’s Hallways of America

I work every day with a heartfelt commitment to document the living history and built environment of our times. I consider my work an indestructible record of our vast nation, including sites that are fast fading, even disappearing, in the wake of growth, development, and decay. ...
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Buy Prints Meet Toni Frissell – The Woman who Shot the Kennedys, Churchill, Elizabeth Taylor, Fashion Models, and the Tuskegee Airmen

Meet Toni Frissell – The Woman who Shot the Kennedys, Churchill, Elizabeth Taylor, Fashion Models, and the Tuskegee Airmen

Toni Frissell, whose photographic work crossed genres from fashion to portraiture, photo-journalism to war photography, artistic to sports. ...
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Buy Prints How The East Was Won: When Leonid Brezhnev Met Chuck Connors

How The East Was Won: When Leonid Brezhnev Met Chuck Connors

Leonid Brezhnev, the fifth leader of the USSR, ran across the tarmac to bear-hug his favourite actor, and star of his favourite TV show The Rifleman, Chuck Connors, who then lifted the Soviet leader clear off the ground. ...
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‘Your Audience is a Single Reader’: John Steinbeck’s Advice on Writing

‘Your Audience is a Single Reader’: John Steinbeck’s Advice on Writing

"...the following are some of the things I have had to do to keep from going nuts" ...
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The Horror, The Horror! Dark and Disturbing Paintings of Death and Disease

The Horror, The Horror! Dark and Disturbing Paintings of Death and Disease

At one point in his life, Richard Tennant Cooper had dreams of some day being recognised as one of the best artists in the world. ...
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