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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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Fight Dem Back! The Battle of Lewisham: When The Fascists Were Beaten in 1977

Fight Dem Back! The Battle of Lewisham: When The Fascists Were Beaten in 1977

On Saturday 13 August 1977, the fascists were ready to march through south-east London. The Locals were ready and waiting to fight them off ...
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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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