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Listen to Sylvia Plath Read Her Poetry – Ariel, The Colossus, Tulips & More

Listen to Sylvia Plath Read Her Poetry – Ariel, The Colossus, Tulips & More

Hear Sylvia Plath read her poems - "The blood jet is poetry, There is no stopping it" ...
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Explorer’s Stunning Photographs of The Arctic Sun from 100 Years Ago

Explorer’s Stunning Photographs of The Arctic Sun from 100 Years Ago

Donald Baxter MacMillan's fabulous photos of the Artic Sun ...
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The Gashlycrumb Tinies: Edward Gorey’s Alphabet of Death

The Gashlycrumb Tinies: Edward Gorey’s Alphabet of Death

Edward Gorey's A-Z of untimely death ...
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A Walking Tour Of Hull In The 1980s

A Walking Tour Of Hull In The 1980s

"These are colour photographs I took in and around Hull in the 1970s and 1980s" - Peter Marshall ...
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Brion Gysin’s Dream Machine, the Only Work of Art You Look at With Your Eyes Closed

Brion Gysin’s Dream Machine, the Only Work of Art You Look at With Your Eyes Closed

It was Gysin who invented cut-ups, in his sound and film experiments with mathematician Ian Sommerville, using techniques Burroughs would later take up in his own occult experiments. ...
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Salvador Dali’s Christmas Cards for Hallmark and Hoechst Ibérica

Salvador Dali’s Christmas Cards for Hallmark and Hoechst Ibérica

For Christmas 1960, Spanish artist Salvador Dalí (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989) designed greeting cards for Hallmark ...
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Buy Prints Eric Ravilious’ Visionary Views of England

Eric Ravilious’ Visionary Views of England

"I never saw Eric Ravilious depressed. Even when he fell in love - and that ...
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Evidence of Life : Two Photographers Show Us Mysteries In The Mundane – 1977

Evidence of Life : Two Photographers Show Us Mysteries In The Mundane – 1977

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe ...
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Photographs of Camden In 1986

Photographs of Camden In 1986

This is what Peter Marshall saw as he mooched around Camden c. 1986 ...
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Buy Prints Fabulous Photos of Lunchtime Dancing at the Top Rank Dancehall on Charing Cross Road in 1963.

Fabulous Photos of Lunchtime Dancing at the Top Rank Dancehall on Charing Cross Road in 1963.

In the basement of The Astoria Theatre was a ballroom and like many throughout Britain at the time it was known as the Top Rank Dance Hall. In 1963 it held teenage lunchtime dance sessions hosted by young DJs. As you can see, it would be a few years before London could be described as anything close to 'swinging'. ...
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Christmas In Washington DC 1941 – Shopping At Woolworth’s Five-and-Dime And Waiting For The Greyhound Bus Home

Christmas In Washington DC 1941 – Shopping At Woolworth’s Five-and-Dime And Waiting For The Greyhound Bus Home

  Christmas Eve 1941. John Vachon (1914 - 1975) has been detailed by the Farm ...
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Buy Prints Schwing! Photos London In The 1960s By Bob Hyde

Schwing! Photos London In The 1960s By Bob Hyde

Bob Hyde's lush photographs of London's West End are quintessentially 1960s ...
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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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    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Part of the Documerica project - a program sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to "photographically document subjects of environmental concern" in the United States from about 1972 to 1977. ...
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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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    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroids‎ (1979 - 1984) show us thoughtful and dreamy visions of his native Russia, featuring his family, his dog, his home, his garden, views from trips to Italy and a 'selfie'. Tarkovsky (4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) is the revered film director of whom Ingmar Bergman said, “Tarkovsky ...
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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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    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    There is a moment in every one of those tacky beauty pageants when the sweaty, middle-aged host asks each young swimsuit-clad contestant "If there was one thing you could do what would it be?" The answers are always the same: "I would bring about world peace." It's a nice thought--though ...
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