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The Look of the Bauhaus Book: How the Radical Weimar Design School Sold its New Program for the Arts

The Look of the Bauhaus Book: How the Radical Weimar Design School Sold its New Program for the Arts

In order to make the sustained case for the “new system,” Gropius and László Moholy-Nagy began a book series in 1923 when the school acquired its own publishing house. ...
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Sea Monkeys, X-Ray Specs, and the Twisted Secret Behind Vintage Ads from American Comic Books

Sea Monkeys, X-Ray Specs, and the Twisted Secret Behind Vintage Ads from American Comic Books

  American comics first came to Glasgow as ships' ballast. In the sixties it seemed ...
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Harper Goff : The Steampunk Artist Who Designed Disneyland’s Main Street USA

Harper Goff : The Steampunk Artist Who Designed Disneyland’s Main Street USA

The brilliant Harper Goff and how a chance meeting with Walt Disney created Main Street USA ...
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War to Couture: The Serious Fashion Spreads of D-Day Photographer Tony Vaccaro

War to Couture: The Serious Fashion Spreads of D-Day Photographer Tony Vaccaro

'I came out with a towel around me looking for the mail and there was ...
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My Brilliant Grandpa’s Photographs – The Jack Sharp Collection (1950-1970)

My Brilliant Grandpa’s Photographs – The Jack Sharp Collection (1950-1970)

  Thanks to Dylan Sharp we get to know Jack Sharp (1928-1992), his grandfather. Jack ...
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Pavel Tchelitchew : Psychedelic Skulls, Spiritual Heads & Interior Landscapes

Pavel Tchelitchew : Psychedelic Skulls, Spiritual Heads & Interior Landscapes

Pavel Tchelitchew (1898, Moscow - 1957, Rome) was a set designer, costume designer, one-time ballerina and artist who reduced the material to the spiritual and then injected it with divine energy. ...
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The Incredible Results of Berenice Abbott’s Mission To Photograph Physics

The Incredible Results of Berenice Abbott’s Mission To Photograph Physics

Art and science never looked more enticing than in Berenice Abbott's beautiful photos of physical phenomena ...
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Dresden Destroyed: Images of the Ruined City in the Aftermath of Its Apocalyptic 1945 Fire-Bombing

Dresden Destroyed: Images of the Ruined City in the Aftermath of Its Apocalyptic 1945 Fire-Bombing

Rosewater was twice as smart as Billy, but he and Billy were dealing with similar ...
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Here Be Monsters: Guy N. Smith’s Glorious Horror Fiction

Here Be Monsters: Guy N. Smith’s Glorious Horror Fiction

“Crabs, crabs, crabs. Crabs the size of beach donkeys.” ― Guy N Smith   It ...
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Diego Maradona : The Greatest Footballer of All Time – A Life In Pictures

Diego Maradona : The Greatest Footballer of All Time – A Life In Pictures

Diego Maradona (30 October 1960 – 25 November 2020) was the greatest footballer of all time. He was a true national hero ...
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Richard and Cherry Kearton – Two Wildlife Photography Pioneers, Baby Birds And One Stuffed Ox

Richard and Cherry Kearton – Two Wildlife Photography Pioneers, Baby Birds And One Stuffed Ox

At a time when hunting was fashionable and nature conservation was in its infancy, the brothers recognised the need to respect wildlife and to capture it through photography rather than by hunting down trophies ...
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The Kray Twins and the Esmeralda’s Barn Casino in Knightsbridge

The Kray Twins and the Esmeralda’s Barn Casino in Knightsbridge

"A three-tiered barn of gold, a licence to print money" - Charlie Kray ...
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    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

    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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    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    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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    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    Cass Elliot died choking on a ham sandwich; everybody knows that. Except that she didn’t. ...
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    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

      It was a Saturday evening, St Valentine’s Day 1970, when William Jellett first thought he might be Jesus. He was on the London Underground, travelling back from work, and noticed the headline of the newspaper unfurled opposite him: “Cambridge riots — two policemen beaten up”. There had been student protests the ...
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    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    “It kept me from eating it if it was framed on the wall” - Mark Mcloud on his amazing collection of LSD Blotters ...
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    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

      In 1980, Chuck Berry spoke to St Louis-based punk zine Jet Lag (1980 -1991). Berry talked about his first gig, signing with Leonard Chess's Chess Records, his role as a "teenage historian" and "what the kids are listening to these days". He was invited to review some records. Chuck Berry's record ...
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    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    "I humbly invite you to take a stroll through my life in the squatter community of the Lower East Side (LES) in the 1990s," writes Ash Thayer, whose book, Kill City, focuses on New York City squatters, harking back to another age, when city's were not being made overly safe, libraries were valued ...
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    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904) was not into smut and eroticism. His rapid-fire sequential photographs of two naked women kissing served to aid his studies of human and animal movement. It was in the interests of art and science Muybridge secured the services of two women, ...
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    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Siouxsie Sioux (born Susan Janet Ballion on 27 May 1957) found fame with Siouxsie and The Banshees, the band she so-created with Steven Severin. Many pictures of Siouxsie Sioux and the rest of the group and their friends were taken by photographer Ray Stevenson, the brother of Nils Stevenson, who managed ...
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    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Let's time travel to the 1970s, when the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) was a fun place to study. Michael Jang was a student at CalArts, a school set up by Walt Disney in the 1960s. Jang wandered about the place, aiming the Leica camera he'd bought from a wedding photographer at his ...
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