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The Patients of Prestwich Mental Hospital in a Documentary Photo Series from 1972

The Patients of Prestwich Mental Hospital in a Documentary Photo Series from 1972

Martin Parr's photographs of people trapped in a place of last resort... ...
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Can You Survive…? Lobby Cards for ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’?

Can You Survive…? Lobby Cards for ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’?

A simple tag line that appeared on the original film poster for Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in 1974. ...it happened. ...
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Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Poetic Treasury of Life

Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Poetic Treasury of Life

“Did you ever know that a flower, once withered and freshened again, becomes an immortal flower, – that is, that it rises again?” – Emily Dickinson ...
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They Came to a Cinema Near You!: Attack of the B-Movie Posters

They Came to a Cinema Near You!: Attack of the B-Movie Posters

Scene: A poster exhibition in Hollywood sometime in the mid-1950s. Cool, young, twenty-something movie producer ...
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More Of Us: Photographer Michael Carlebach Notices The Americans We Don’t See

More Of Us: Photographer Michael Carlebach Notices The Americans We Don’t See

"I look for meaning at the edges of things, avoiding the incendiary characters who bully their way into our lives whether we like it or not' - Michael Carlebach ...
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The Controversial Erotic Rope Bondage Photographs of Nobuyoshi Araki (NSFW)

The Controversial Erotic Rope Bondage Photographs of Nobuyoshi Araki (NSFW)

The moral authorities construed exhibiting such art as an unacceptable crossing of boundaries, a legitimizing of images that disturb and arouse the public. ...
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White Slaves, Sinful Sisters or Playthings of Passion – Reginald Heade was your Man!

White Slaves, Sinful Sisters or Playthings of Passion – Reginald Heade was your Man!

Reginald Heade's beautifully painted buxom sirens, not unusually depicted in déshabillé, adorned many hard-boiled thrillers during the forties and fifties... ...
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Rediscovered Hair Portraits From CUTS, the Legendary London Salon that Styled 80s Subcultures

Rediscovered Hair Portraits From CUTS, the Legendary London Salon that Styled 80s Subcultures

At the center of 80s counterculture in London was CUTS, a salon founded by hairdressers James Lebon and Steve Brooks. ...
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Buy Prints Cecil Beaton’s War Drawings

Cecil Beaton’s War Drawings

It was the Queen who recommended Beaton to the Ministry of Information, where he was employed as a War Photographer. It was a great relief to Beaton who felt: …frustrated and ashamed. This war, as far as I can see, is something specifically designed to show up my inadequacy in every possible capacity. ...
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‘Black Leather, Black Leather, Smash, Smash, Smash!’ Oliver Reed Dishes out Some Ultra-violence in Joseph Losey’s ‘These are the Damned’

‘Black Leather, Black Leather, Smash, Smash, Smash!’ Oliver Reed Dishes out Some Ultra-violence in Joseph Losey’s ‘These are the Damned’

I could have gone to Hollywood but I chose life instead... ...
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Buy Prints Fantastic Photos of Manchester United and Manchester City Fans in 1976-1977 And We Need Your Help

Fantastic Photos of Manchester United and Manchester City Fans in 1976-1977 And We Need Your Help

This is what football used to look like. It was fantastic. Help us to keep the memories alive by sharing your stories in a new book ...
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Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison: The Concert Documented by Legendary Photographer Jim Marshall

Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison: The Concert Documented by Legendary Photographer Jim Marshall

Cash never actually shot a man in Reno, nor spent more than a night in jail, but he became an outlaw hero in maximum security prisons for his willingness to listen to prisoners about the realities of their lives. ...
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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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