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Sometimes a Cigar is NOT Just a Cigar: Phallic Innuendo in Vintage Advertising

Sometimes a Cigar is NOT Just a Cigar: Phallic Innuendo in Vintage Advertising

  "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" - a quote attributed to Sigmund Freud, refers to ...
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Getting WAY Too Excited About Computers: Open-Mouthed Wonderment in 80s Tech Adverts

Getting WAY Too Excited About Computers: Open-Mouthed Wonderment in 80s Tech Adverts

Look at these people.  Judging by the levels of shock-and-awe, you'd think this man just ...
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Live Long and Prosper: Mr. Spock’s Greatest Achievements in Star Trek’s Prime Universe

Live Long and Prosper: Mr. Spock’s Greatest Achievements in Star Trek’s Prime Universe

  This week marks the fiftieth anniversary of Gene Roddenberry's space opera, Star Trek (1966-1969). ...
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Andy Warhol Eats A Burger King And Asks ‘Where is the beautiful McDonald’s?’

Andy Warhol Eats A Burger King And Asks ‘Where is the beautiful McDonald’s?’

"It couldn’t be more Warholesque. That’s of course why he agreed to do it" ...
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Waiting to Leave: Portraits At LAX’s Airplane Landing View Point (1982)

Waiting to Leave: Portraits At LAX’s Airplane Landing View Point (1982)

In 1982 John King took a trip to a scarred empty lot right next to the ...
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Brilliant Mod Revival Photos and Ephemera by Paul Wright 1979-1980

Brilliant Mod Revival Photos and Ephemera by Paul Wright 1979-1980

  Paul Wright writes: The Sex Pistols split-up shortly after their final gig on 14 ...
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Before Transformers There Were Gobots: Apart they’re Awful – Together They’re Monsterous

Before Transformers There Were Gobots: Apart they’re Awful – Together They’re Monsterous

  Today, everybody loves Hasbro’s Transformers toy line, but back in the mid-1980s the Autobots ...
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This Is Now: The Post-Punk Scene Presents John Maybury’s Solitude

This Is Now: The Post-Punk Scene Presents John Maybury’s Solitude

One of the choice selections to be screened as part of the post-punk film season ...
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We Are Waiting For The Change: Russia At Breaking Point In The 1980s

We Are Waiting For The Change: Russia At Breaking Point In The 1980s

Natalia Gorlenko, editor of Russian Photo, shares these pictures of Russia in the 1980s. The ...
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New York 1982 / 1983: Before Big Money Buried The City’s Character

New York 1982 / 1983: Before Big Money Buried The City’s Character

In many ways New York City is a very different place to how it was ...
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David Gwinnutt’s Portraits Of London’s Artistic Community (1980 – 2011)

David Gwinnutt’s Portraits Of London’s Artistic Community (1980 – 2011)

Photographer David Gwinnutt’s show Portraits Trouvés at north London estate agency Currell provided documentation of ...
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The Saul Bass Movie Poster Archive

The Saul Bass Movie Poster Archive

The movie posters of American graphic designer and Oscar-winning film-maker Saul Bass (1920-1996; won an Oscar ...
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