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‘The Unruliness of Leisure’: Photographs of European Summers from 1979-1984

‘The Unruliness of Leisure’: Photographs of European Summers from 1979-1984

Every summer from the late 1970s through the mid ’80s SERGIO PURTELL would buy an inexpensive roundtrip ticket from New York to London, and from there get a Eurail pass. Traveling cheaply, he could move freely around Europe... ...
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Lester Beall For The U.S. Department of Agriculture – 1930s

Lester Beall For The U.S. Department of Agriculture – 1930s

Lester Beall (1903 – 1969) was an American graphic designer notable as a leading proponent ...
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Mamie Van Doren Gives Advice on Love, Sex, and How to Have ‘Wild Experiences’

Mamie Van Doren Gives Advice on Love, Sex, and How to Have ‘Wild Experiences’

Van Doren was one of the '50s three (celluloid) graces alongside Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield. She had the smarts and pizazz to make her indelible mark on modern culture. She knew what she had and how to to market it. ...
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People Spending An Evening in Carlisle’s Oldest Pub in 1975

People Spending An Evening in Carlisle’s Oldest Pub in 1975

In 1975 John J Brady was studying art at Carlisle college. He took a part-time job in the King's Head pub. And one day he took these pictures ...
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Portraits of Die Halbstarken, Swiss Rock ‘n’ Roll Rebel Teens from the 1960s and 70s

Portraits of Die Halbstarken, Swiss Rock ‘n’ Roll Rebel Teens from the 1960s and 70s

“Karlheinz Weinberger was from Switzerland??! You gotta be kidding me. I first thought! His photos ...
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Coppers: Brilliant Photographs of British Police in the 1980s

Coppers: Brilliant Photographs of British Police in the 1980s

Photographer Dave Sinclair captured Britain at a time of social unrest. As official photographer for The Militant, Dave saw first hand the turmoil in his native Liverpool, Belfast and London, where he now lives. His used his camera to record a time of strife and protest. ...
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Buy Prints Out of the Shadows – Gerda Taro, War Photographer

Out of the Shadows – Gerda Taro, War Photographer

Gerta Pohorylle adopted the professional name of "Gerda Taro" after the Japanese artist Tarō Okamoto although initially Taro and Capa shared the name "Robert Capa" derived from Endre Friedmann's Budapest street nickname "Cápa" which means "Shark" in Hungarian. A significant amount of what is credited as Robert Capa's early work was almost certainly photographed by Taro. ...
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Bright Lights, Big City: Vintage Postcards from Las Vegas

Bright Lights, Big City: Vintage Postcards from Las Vegas

Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky saw the potential to make money out in the desert. Shaking the dust off his two-tone shoes, Siegel looked at the mix of army bases, gasoline stations, and religious buildings and said, "Here's where the future begins." ...
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Face Values: The Surreal and Disturbing Collage Portraits of John Stezaker

Face Values: The Surreal and Disturbing Collage Portraits of John Stezaker

For the past fifty years, Stezaker has been making some of the most arresting and disturbing collages from found photographs, postcards, book plates, and magazines. ...
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Hackney Then And Now: London Historian Records 30 Years of Change In Photographs

Hackney Then And Now: London Historian Records 30 Years of Change In Photographs

Richard Yeboah shows us dramatic changes in Hackney over the past 30 years ...
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Falling In Love With Barcelona’s Romany People: Photographs of 1960s Montjuïc by Jacque Leonard

Falling In Love With Barcelona’s Romany People: Photographs of 1960s Montjuïc by Jacque Leonard

Jacques Léonard's cinematic photographs of Romany people living in the Barcelona hills ...
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Civil War: Dramatic Scenes From the British Miners Strike of 1984-85

Civil War: Dramatic Scenes From the British Miners Strike of 1984-85

The government and media on both the left and right wasted no time in framing the labor crisis as a war—between unions and “right to work” miners, and between disgruntled unionists and police ...
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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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