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Brion Gysin’s Dream Machine, the Only Work of Art You Look at With Your Eyes Closed

Brion Gysin’s Dream Machine, the Only Work of Art You Look at With Your Eyes Closed

It was Gysin who invented cut-ups, in his sound and film experiments with mathematician Ian Sommerville, using techniques Burroughs would later take up in his own occult experiments. ...
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Salvador Dali’s Christmas Cards for Hallmark and Hoechst Ibérica

Salvador Dali’s Christmas Cards for Hallmark and Hoechst Ibérica

For Christmas 1960, Spanish artist Salvador Dalí (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989) designed greeting cards for Hallmark ...
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Buy Prints Eric Ravilious’ Visionary Views of England

Eric Ravilious’ Visionary Views of England

"I never saw Eric Ravilious depressed. Even when he fell in love - and that ...
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Evidence of Life : Two Photographers Show Us Mysteries In The Mundane – 1977

Evidence of Life : Two Photographers Show Us Mysteries In The Mundane – 1977

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe ...
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Photographs of Camden In 1986

Photographs of Camden In 1986

This is what Peter Marshall saw as he mooched around Camden c. 1986 ...
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Buy Prints Fabulous Photos of Lunchtime Dancing at the Top Rank Dancehall on Charing Cross Road in 1963.

Fabulous Photos of Lunchtime Dancing at the Top Rank Dancehall on Charing Cross Road in 1963.

In the basement of The Astoria Theatre was a ballroom and like many throughout Britain at the time it was known as the Top Rank Dance Hall. In 1963 it held teenage lunchtime dance sessions hosted by young DJs. As you can see, it would be a few years before London could be described as anything close to 'swinging'. ...
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Christmas In Washington DC 1941 – Shopping At Woolworth’s Five-and-Dime And Waiting For The Greyhound Bus Home

Christmas In Washington DC 1941 – Shopping At Woolworth’s Five-and-Dime And Waiting For The Greyhound Bus Home

  Christmas Eve 1941. John Vachon (1914 - 1975) has been detailed by the Farm ...
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Buy Prints Schwing! Photos London In The 1960s By Bob Hyde

Schwing! Photos London In The 1960s By Bob Hyde

Bob Hyde's lush photographs of London's West End are quintessentially 1960s ...
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Barbara Windsor: A Life in Photos

Barbara Windsor: A Life in Photos

British Actress Dame Barbara Windsor was 83 when she succumbed to Alzheimer's at a London care home. Dame Barbara is best remembered as the star of nine of the 31 Carry On films - and it's hard to think of the series of saucy comedies without her. ...
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A Photo Tour of Deptford In the 1980s

A Photo Tour of Deptford In the 1980s

In the 1980s Peter Marshall walked around Deptford in South London. This is what he saw.... ...
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Love And Blood :  Joan Ruppert Finds Her Father In The Shoebox Negatives

Love And Blood : Joan Ruppert Finds Her Father In The Shoebox Negatives

Joan Ruppert opened a shoebox full of photographs and travelled back in time. I wanted ...
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The Rocking P Gazette – 1923-1924 : The Homemade Newspaper From Canada’s Frontier Produced By Two Young Sisters

The Rocking P Gazette – 1923-1924 : The Homemade Newspaper From Canada’s Frontier Produced By Two Young Sisters

In 1923, Dorothy Margaret Macleay, 14, and her younger sister Gertrude Maxine, 12, began producing a monthly newspaper. They called it the Rocking P Gazette, after the family's Rocking P ranch ...
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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 Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    "I get a thrill when they’re kneeling there, between my knees and they’re looking up at me. And I want them to call me Mr Hill, not Benny. ‘Is that all right for you, Mr Hill?’ That’s lovely, that is, I really like that,” I asked him why and he said, “Well, it’s respectful...”’ - Benny Hill ...
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    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroids‎ (1979 - 1984) show us thoughtful and dreamy visions of his native Russia, featuring his family, his dog, his home, his garden, views from trips to Italy and a 'selfie'. Tarkovsky (4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) is the revered film director of whom Ingmar Bergman said, “Tarkovsky ...
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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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