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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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My Horn Don’t Dig Those Race Troubles – When White Supremacists Bombed Louis Armstrong

My Horn Don’t Dig Those Race Troubles – When White Supremacists Bombed Louis Armstrong

The noise from the dynamite reverberated around the Jacob Building, echoing under the balconies and the barrelled ceiling. A woman half a mile away heard it. ...
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Independence Day In Vale Oregon, 1941

Independence Day In Vale Oregon, 1941

The faces, fashions and style in Lee's photographs are suggestive of a monoculture, a small town where things and people are in their right place and fit there. ...
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Nick Peacock’s Hot Pix Volume Two: More Nightclubbing from Atlantis, Glasgow – November 1990

Nick Peacock’s Hot Pix Volume Two: More Nightclubbing from Atlantis, Glasgow – November 1990

The Sub Club, Glasgow, Saturday night 1990. The dancefloor is crammed. People up, joyous, hands in the air, entranced by the music. It's a club night called Atlantis. ...
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Buy Prints Calaveras: José Posada’s Skeletons Celebrate Life, Mock The Elite And Hail Mexico’s Day Of the Dead (1880 – 1913)

Calaveras: José Posada’s Skeletons Celebrate Life, Mock The Elite And Hail Mexico’s Day Of the Dead (1880 – 1913)

Mexican illustrator José Guadalupe Posada gave us calaveras, representations of the human skeleton seen in Mexico's Day of the Dead ...
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Flu Masks From 1918-1919

Flu Masks From 1918-1919

In 1918, influenza, the so-called Spanish Flu, or 91918H1N1, to give its proper name, claimed the lives of more than 50 million people in just 15 months. Masks were part of the drive to beat it ...
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What Kind of Fool was He? Anthony Newley In ‘The Small World of Sammy Lee’

What Kind of Fool was He? Anthony Newley In ‘The Small World of Sammy Lee’

Anthony Newley was a perfect fit for the lead role in The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963). Newley starred as Sammy Lee, a low-rent compere at a striptease club who's in hock to a Soho bookie. He has 24-hours to cough-up or else. ...
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Gustave Gain’s Color Autochromes Bring The Past To Life

Gustave Gain’s Color Autochromes Bring The Past To Life

  In the early 20th Century, French photographer Gustave Gain (1876-1945) took pictures of his ...
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A Photo Series Documents the Lives of Irish Travellers Outside Dublin in the Late 1960s

A Photo Series Documents the Lives of Irish Travellers Outside Dublin in the Late 1960s

From 1965 to 1971, Macweeney documented the lives of Irish Travellers, and in so doing became one of the foremost anthropologists of Traveller culture ...
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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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