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Christmas Hits: Those Seventies Seasonal Smashes

Christmas Hits: Those Seventies Seasonal Smashes

Seventies Seasonal Smashes - from the time when Christmas records ruled the Earth ...
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Buy Prints We Do Lockdown – Miriam Elia’s Brilliant 1950s Spoof Mocks Covid-19

We Do Lockdown – Miriam Elia’s Brilliant 1950s Spoof Mocks Covid-19

So grab your face mask and satchel and join Mummy, John and Susan as they venture out in this fearful new world. ...
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The Insect Alphabet by Léon Becker – 1883

The Insect Alphabet by Léon Becker – 1883

Belgian scientist Léon Becker and French artist Fortuné Méaulle enlist insects to teach us our A to Z ...
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When Paris Burned: Dramatic Photographs of the 1968 Paris Uprisings

When Paris Burned: Dramatic Photographs of the 1968 Paris Uprisings

“I’ve never seen such violence in a western capital as I saw in Paris that month” - Bruno Barbey ...
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The Soviet Sex Alphabet by Sergey Merkurov, 1931 (NSFW)

The Soviet Sex Alphabet by Sergey Merkurov, 1931 (NSFW)

In 1931 a revered Soviet patriot took a break from making grandiose statues of Lenin to create an erotic alphabet ...
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Fifty Years Ago: Angry Brigade and the Motley Crew of Miss World Judges in 1970

Fifty Years Ago: Angry Brigade and the Motley Crew of Miss World Judges in 1970

“While the girls are changing into their extremely expensive evening gowns...” ...
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Buy Prints 31 Visions of Hell, Satan, Demons And Cabbalistic Signs From A 1775 Compendium Of Horrors

31 Visions of Hell, Satan, Demons And Cabbalistic Signs From A 1775 Compendium Of Horrors

Visions of Hell, Satan and Demons according to the Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros, 1775 ...
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Guilty! Orson Welles’ Film of Franz Kafka’s ‘The Trial’

Guilty! Orson Welles’ Film of Franz Kafka’s ‘The Trial’

As Welles told Peter Bogdanovich he was attracted to Kafka's novel as he "had recurring nightmares of guilt" and of being put on trial throughout his life: ...
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Louis Renard’s Superb Illustrations of the East Indies Marine life He Never Saw

Louis Renard’s Superb Illustrations of the East Indies Marine life He Never Saw

Louis Renard was a publisher and spy for the British crown who never left the Netherlands and drew surreal Indian Ocean fish ...
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Alfred Wertheimer’s Incredible Photos of Elvis On The Cusp Of Greatness – 1956

Alfred Wertheimer’s Incredible Photos of Elvis On The Cusp Of Greatness – 1956

“He permitted closeness. Without that I wouldn’t have gotten my intimate photographs. With Elvis, you ...
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Home of the Beats: How City Lights Booksellers and Publishers Made Radical Poetry Popular

Home of the Beats: How City Lights Booksellers and Publishers Made Radical Poetry Popular

The combination paperback-only bookstore and literary publisher proved revolutionary in the 1950s and 60s. ...
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Artist Recycles Antique Tech Into Intricate Steampunk Spiders

Artist Recycles Antique Tech Into Intricate Steampunk Spiders

For Budapest-based artist Peter Szucsy everything old is new again. His spiders and crabs are made from old watches medical equipment and cameras. ...
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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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