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John Cohen’s Portraits of Appalachian Folk Singers (and Bob Dylan) from the Early 1960s

John Cohen’s Portraits of Appalachian Folk Singers (and Bob Dylan) from the Early 1960s

Cohen “told stories and documented characters from the inside as a photographer and musician steeped in the history of American folk music.” ...
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The Pioneering Novels and Kick-Ass Thrills of Alistair MacLean

The Pioneering Novels and Kick-Ass Thrills of Alistair MacLean

When HMS Ulysses was published in 1955, it became an instant best-seller. Its film rights were bought for £30,000 and Picture Post paid £5,000 for serial rights. Alistair MacLean had arrived. ...
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‘Flesh Gordon’: Saving Earth from Planet Porno’s Emperor Wang and his Evil Sex Ray

‘Flesh Gordon’: Saving Earth from Planet Porno’s Emperor Wang and his Evil Sex Ray

Welcome to the Planet Porno, where evil Emperor Wang the Perverted (a clue there, methinks) has his nasty sex ray pointed at Earth. ...
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21 Vintage Snapshots Of Women in Killer Sunglasses

21 Vintage Snapshots Of Women in Killer Sunglasses

Sunglasses killed the parasol, made the cool look cooler and the needy look vain and insecure. This is how to wear them... ...
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How Augustus Washington, an African American Abolitionist and Daguerreotypist, Helped Establish Photography in West Africa

How Augustus Washington, an African American Abolitionist and Daguerreotypist, Helped Establish Photography in West Africa

The photographer’s sliding scale made portraiture widely accessible to a variety of people from different classes ...
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Buy Prints Anarchy Lives: A Brilliant Photograph and Print of Stratford, London In 1976

Anarchy Lives: A Brilliant Photograph and Print of Stratford, London In 1976

Artist Judy Greenway tells us about her fantastic photograph 'Anarchy Lives' ...
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Snapshots of Kenneth Anger

Snapshots of Kenneth Anger

There aren't that many photographs of Kenneth Anger smiling. They're usually portraits of the great avant-garde filmmaker looking serious, or brooding, or, shall we say?, slightly demonic? ...
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Striking Photographs of The Lunar Surface from The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite (1874)

Striking Photographs of The Lunar Surface from The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite (1874)

British scientists James Nasmyth and James Carpenter's detailed close-ups of the lunar surface made from plaster models. ...
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Buy Prints Dead! Undead!: The Many Posters of Bela Lugosi’s ‘Dracula’ 1931

Dead! Undead!: The Many Posters of Bela Lugosi’s ‘Dracula’ 1931

The appeal of Browning's Dracula rests with Bela Lugosi's performance. He was the first to portray the Count on screen. Lugosi's Dracula is the one against which all other Counts must be judged. ...
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Late 1960s Photographs of Saigon Going about Its Business While the Vietnam War Rages

Late 1960s Photographs of Saigon Going about Its Business While the Vietnam War Rages

The city’s daily business continued. In the photos here from the late sixties, we can see the odd reminder that a war rages on multiple battlefronts outside the city—a few armed South Vietnamese soldiers here and there. ...
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Symphonies of Brown and Green – Beautiful British Pre-war British Travel Posters

Symphonies of Brown and Green – Beautiful British Pre-war British Travel Posters

                 
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A Night in Atlantis: Nick Peacock’s Photographs of Clubbing in 1990

A Night in Atlantis: Nick Peacock’s Photographs of Clubbing in 1990

In November 1990, Peacock was commissioned by a music magazine to document one night at a Glasgow club... ...
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    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    Dave Lee's guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book ...
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    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    How snapshots told the story of the day the world changed ...
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    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Some of the best parts of Chandler's notebooks were his compilations of pickpocket lingo, jail house slang, and terms used by Narcs ...
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    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    In January 1948 the Observer film critic, C.A. Lejeune, made no attempt to hide her disapproving tone when reviewing the Boulting Brothers’ Brighton Rock: “Graham Greene’s savage story about a couple of race-course gangs and their fancy ways with a razor is one of the most brutal things I have seen on 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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    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    You know the story, or a version of it, if you’ve seen 24 Hour Party People. New Order—or rather, their manager Rob Gretton—opens a club with Factory Records’ Tony Wilson in 1982. From the start, it’s a financial disaster... ...
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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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    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    This is known as one of medicine's most incredible moments. Imagine a room full of parents sitting at the bedside waiting for the inevitable death of their child. ...
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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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