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Charles Conder: The Bohemian from Down Under–Sex, Disease, Pernod and Painting

Charles Conder: The Bohemian from Down Under–Sex, Disease, Pernod and Painting

The great antipodean actor, writer, genius surrealist comic performer, father and mother of Dame Edna Everage, inventor and cousin twice removed to Sir Les Patterson, Mr. Barry Humphries has long been a fan of the artist Charles Conder. ...
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Crime Story: Beautiful Photographs Reveals America At War With Itself in 1957 by Gordon Parks

Crime Story: Beautiful Photographs Reveals America At War With Itself in 1957 by Gordon Parks

In 1957 Life magazine asked Gordon Parks to show readers that crime looked like in the United States. ...
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The Collapse of the Soviet Union in Pictures

The Collapse of the Soviet Union in Pictures

Despite its "permanently revisionist stance in international affairs," the state had become moribund. The revolution was over. ...
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Sex, Drugs, Jazz and Gangsters – The Disreputable History of Gerrard Street in London’s Chinatown

Sex, Drugs, Jazz and Gangsters – The Disreputable History of Gerrard Street in London’s Chinatown

  At the end of October 1959 in the basement of 39 Gerrard Street - ...
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Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

In 2014 Los Angeles-based photographer Merrick Morton (a onetime LAPD reserve officer) spotted a derelict stash of haunting LAPD crime photos. Here they are. ...
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Buy Prints From Nudes to an Earthquake: The trail-blazing photography of Arnold Genthe

From Nudes to an Earthquake: The trail-blazing photography of Arnold Genthe

Like many other photographers at the time, Genthe documented everything. He was a portrait photographer, a photo-journalist, and an artist. ...
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The World As He Sees It: An Exclusive Interview with Legendary Photographer Jürgen Schadeberg

The World As He Sees It: An Exclusive Interview with Legendary Photographer Jürgen Schadeberg

At the start of his teens, Schadeberg was forced into the Hitler Youth. He hated it and everything it represented. Sometimes he marched backwards, or wore bright colours instead of the standard issue brown shirt. On other occasions he mimicked Charlie Chaplin as der Führer. ...
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Fights, Booze and John Ford’s ‘Greatest Triumph’: ‘The Quiet Man’

Fights, Booze and John Ford’s ‘Greatest Triumph’: ‘The Quiet Man’

Ford wanted everyone to know he was a tough, no-nonsense son-of-a-bitch. He had a sneaking suspicion that making movies might make him seem slightly effete. To counter, fists would fly as the shot glasses clinked. ...
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Meet Rondo Hatton or With a Face like that, You ought to be in Movies

Meet Rondo Hatton or With a Face like that, You ought to be in Movies

His looks fascinated people and he became an iconic cult figure with horror buffs. ...
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Buy Prints Photographs of a Cajun Fais Do-Do Dance in Crowley, Louisiana in 1938

Photographs of a Cajun Fais Do-Do Dance in Crowley, Louisiana in 1938

For the uninitiated a 'Fais do-do' (do is pronounced dough) refers to a Cajun dance party of some sort often held on a Sunday afternoon. ...
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Remembering Original AC/DC Singer Bon Scott 40 Years After His Death

Remembering Original AC/DC Singer Bon Scott 40 Years After His Death

“They discovered this formula early on and they just stayed true to it. I think there’s something about that that resonates with people, it’s like a constant known in your life.” No matter what’s happening in the world, AC/DC will always sound the same. ...
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Buy Prints Dark Arts: Kawanabe Kyōsai’s Illustrations for ‘The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons’

Dark Arts: Kawanabe Kyōsai’s Illustrations for ‘The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons’

Something caught his foot. He stumbled. Looking down Kyōsai saw a man's severed head. The concept of structure and order no longer made sense. ...
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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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