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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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The Remarkable Photographs of Umbo (Otto Umbehr)

The Remarkable Photographs of Umbo (Otto Umbehr)

Umbo's work has an uncanny, surreal edge that pushes it beyond simple documentation... ...
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The Man From Mars Visits New York and Other Pictures that Made the News

The Man From Mars Visits New York and Other Pictures that Made the News

The NYWTS published many great and historical photographs which reflect the era they were taken in as much as they reverberate with events today. ...
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An Illustrated Police Equipment Catalogue from 1891

An Illustrated Police Equipment Catalogue from 1891

A scarce police equipment catalogue featuring numerous illustrations of weaponry and equipment, and doubling as a policeman’s ‘how-to’ guide. ...
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The Complete Erotic Fantaisies Parisiennes, 1880 by Frédillo (NSFW)

The Complete Erotic Fantaisies Parisiennes, 1880 by Frédillo (NSFW)

Frédillo (or Fredillo) was a French cartoonist and illustrator working in the late 19th Century. ...
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Portraits of Alice Liddell, the Original Alice in Wonderland, Taken by Lewis Carroll and Julia Margaret Cameron

Portraits of Alice Liddell, the Original Alice in Wonderland, Taken by Lewis Carroll and Julia Margaret Cameron

Yes, Virginia, there is an Alice—or there was, at any rate, though she did not go to Wonderland but boating on the Thames with her sisters Edith and Lorina, the Rev. Robinson Duckworth, and Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, known to readers around the world as Lewis Carroll. ...
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A Coney Island of the Mind: Fifty Years of Photographing the Legendary Brooklyn “People’s Beach”

A Coney Island of the Mind: Fifty Years of Photographing the Legendary Brooklyn “People’s Beach”

Called at various times in its history “the World’s Greatest Playground,” “the People’s Beach,” and “Sodom on the Sea,” Coney Island's history is intimately tied to the art and culture of the US. ...
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Movie Posters of the Soviet Avant-Garde

Movie Posters of the Soviet Avant-Garde

These movie posters from the 1920s are an electrifying record of a cultural spirit and mood from the pre-Stalin days of the Soviet Union... ...
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Reaching Out: That’s Me In Photo That Defined The Vietnam War

Reaching Out: That’s Me In Photo That Defined The Vietnam War

"That's my father with his hand reaching out!! " said Josh Hadley when he noticed a photo on our Facebook Page of Mutter Ridge, Nui Cay Tri, South Vietnam, October 1966 by Larry Burrows ...
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The Fine Art of Ju-Jutsu by Mrs Roger Watts Published in 1906

The Fine Art of Ju-Jutsu by Mrs Roger Watts Published in 1906

Emily Diana Watts (1867–1968) was among the first female instructors of the Japanese art of jujitsu in the Western world. ...
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Fabulous Kodachrome Snapshots from a Day Trip to London in 1962

Fabulous Kodachrome Snapshots from a Day Trip to London in 1962

  Some great Kodachrome snapshots of a day trip to London in 1962. From a ...
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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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