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The Photo Series ‘Gypsies’ Documents the Lives of European Roma People in the Late 1960s and 70s

The Photo Series ‘Gypsies’ Documents the Lives of European Roma People in the Late 1960s and 70s

by the time photographer Josef Koudelka began photographing Roma communities across Europe in the late 1960s and 70s, “an ambitious drive to assimilate all Roma people into society had already begun, ...
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Sensational and Exploitative Autochromes by Franklin Price Knott (c. 1916)

Sensational and Exploitative Autochromes by Franklin Price Knott (c. 1916)

Franklin Price Knott (1854 - 1930) is remembered for taking some of the first color images to appear in National Geographic magazine. ...
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Anton Corbijn’s Austere Portraits of Rock Royalty: U2, Springsteen, Depeche Mode, R.E.M., Prince, Nick Cave & More

Anton Corbijn’s Austere Portraits of Rock Royalty: U2, Springsteen, Depeche Mode, R.E.M., Prince, Nick Cave & More

When Anton Corbijn photographs musicians, he usually leaves out the instruments. “I want to photograph them more as people in their own world,” he says. ...
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Buy Prints The Decade That Rocked – Buy Prints Of Rock Legends Taken By The Brilliant Mark Weiss

The Decade That Rocked – Buy Prints Of Rock Legends Taken By The Brilliant Mark Weiss

Mark “Weissguy” Weiss is a world-renowned photographer who has traveled the globe photographing music legends from Van Halen, Ozzy Osbourne, Aerosmith, and Mötley Crüe to Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Bon Jovi, and KISS. ...
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“Even the Bathwater is Dirty” – Grim and Grimy Tales of an old Notting Hill

“Even the Bathwater is Dirty” – Grim and Grimy Tales of an old Notting Hill

Journalist Mick Brown once wrote about 'Performance': 'Kick-starting the day with a five-skinner and a bath with two naked girls has never seemed so domestically routine.' ...
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Vintage Photographs of Men in Love

Vintage Photographs of Men in Love

Men loving men in various ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, glass negatives, tintypes, cabinet cards, photo postcards, photo strips, photomatics and snapshots ...
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The Harrowing Photographs and Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

The Harrowing Photographs and Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

Photographed by Arnold Genthe, George R. Lawrence, and others, the photos reveal the vast extent of the devastation and the scale of the military relief effort. They also sometimes show the breakdown of civil order, as in photographs of soldiers looting during the fires. ...
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Japanese Artist Itsuo Kobayashi Draws Every Meal He’s Eaten for Over 30 Years – Food Is Love

Japanese Artist Itsuo Kobayashi Draws Every Meal He’s Eaten for Over 30 Years – Food Is Love

For decades chef Itsuo Kobayashi has been drawing his food diaries, creating a visual record of an enduring love ...
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Chris Killip (11th July 1946 – 13th October 2020)

Chris Killip (11th July 1946 – 13th October 2020)

British documentary photographer Chris Killip left behind a fantastic archive of documentary photography ...
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Mourners Watching Robert F. Kennedy’s Funeral Train Pass By From New York City to Washington DC on June 8 1968

Mourners Watching Robert F. Kennedy’s Funeral Train Pass By From New York City to Washington DC on June 8 1968

People came in their hundreds of thousands to salute Robert F. Kennedy's funeral train. Paul Fusco was watching them ...
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Imogen Cunningham’s Sublime Close-Up Botanical Photos from the 1920s and 30s

Imogen Cunningham’s Sublime Close-Up Botanical Photos from the 1920s and 30s

Imogen Cunningham’s close-up botanical photographs, taken during the 1920s and 30s, have been compared to Georgia O’Keeffe’s abstract flower paintings made around the same time, but the resemblance may have little to do with influence. ...
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Watching Manchester Railways in the 1980s

Watching Manchester Railways in the 1980s

Until 1989, the British State ran the country's railways. David Rostance watched the trains come and go ...
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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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