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Stay Broke, Shoot Film: Alain Bibal’s Iconic Rock Photography

Stay Broke, Shoot Film: Alain Bibal’s Iconic Rock Photography

Born in France in 1964, Bibal started taking photographs in his late-teens and early-twenties but "nothing really serious." Any dreams he harboured were sidelined when he started work and focussed on having a regular life. This, of course, all changed on his fiftieth birthday. ...
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Beyond the Bus: The Story of Rosa Parks’ Lifetime of Civil Rights Activism

Beyond the Bus: The Story of Rosa Parks’ Lifetime of Civil Rights Activism

Known to schoolchildren everywhere as the “brave lady who wouldn’t give up her seat,” few are aware that Parks began her activist career over 20 years before her refusal in 1955 sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott ...
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Women At War: Lush Kodachrome Photos Of Engineers At The Douglas Aircraft Company

Women At War: Lush Kodachrome Photos Of Engineers At The Douglas Aircraft Company

"American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft Company, give important help in producing dependable planes for their men at the front, Long Beach, California" ...
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Pennie Smith’s Candid Photos of The Clash During their First U.S. Tour in 1979

Pennie Smith’s Candid Photos of The Clash During their First U.S. Tour in 1979

Rock photographer Pennie Smith has never seen her London Calling cover photo of Paul Simonon about to smash his bass at the Palladium in New York as the crowning achievement of her career. ...
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New York’s  Lower East Side Punk Scene In Photos From the Early 1980s

New York’s Lower East Side Punk Scene In Photos From the Early 1980s

As squatters took over abandoned buildings, living side by side with black and Latinx residents, they immersed themselves in the sound of hardcore, punk, and hip hop exemplified by bands like The Clash, Beastie Boys, Bad Brains, Black Flag, the Misfits, and Minor Threat. ...
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Brilliant Photos of Hulme – 1980s and 1990s

Brilliant Photos of Hulme – 1980s and 1990s

Hulme was "a dangerous, lawless place to be avoided we were told! So obviously the next day I decided to explore Hulme, see for myself" ...
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The Little Woman who knew all the Big, Big Stars: The Incredible Photo Album found in a Thrift Store

The Little Woman who knew all the Big, Big Stars: The Incredible Photo Album found in a Thrift Store

Maria Snoeys-Lagler's fabulous found photo album ...
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Alice Denham : The Topless Model Who Wrote For Playboy

Alice Denham : The Topless Model Who Wrote For Playboy

Alice Denham squired James Dean (a tender lover), Joseph Heller (good kisser), Philip Roth ("on fire") and Hugh Hefner (“a good ride, a steady canter”) ...
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The Construction of the Forth Railway Bridge, a 19th Century Engineering Marvel

The Construction of the Forth Railway Bridge, a 19th Century Engineering Marvel

These photos date from between 1886 and 1890. ...
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Carry on England: The Scathing Caricatures and Bawdy Erotica of Thomas Rowlandson (NSFW-ish)

Carry on England: The Scathing Caricatures and Bawdy Erotica of Thomas Rowlandson (NSFW-ish)

It should have happened. A Carry On movie loosely based on the life of artist, caricaturist and all-round bad-boy Thomas Rowlandson. ...
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A Second Bill of Rights To Save Racist America From Fascism (1944)

A Second Bill of Rights To Save Racist America From Fascism (1944)

On January 11 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt used his State of the Union address to outline his Second Bill of Rights. ...
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‘An Utterly Different City’ – London in 1973

‘An Utterly Different City’ – London in 1973

Much of the food we tried in London -- and in England generally -- was bland, tasteless, and (in restaurants) overcooked, as we'd been told it would be. Saying no to it was easy. ...
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