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Behind the Scenes of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver: A Classic 1975 Village Voice Report from Filming on the Bowery

Behind the Scenes of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver: A Classic 1975 Village Voice Report from Filming on the Bowery

“That was when the metaphor of the taxi cab occurred to me. That is what I was: this person in an iron box, a coffin, floating round the city, but seemingly alone.” Paul Schrader ...
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Hannah Höch, The Artist Who Wanted ‘to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it’

Hannah Höch, The Artist Who Wanted ‘to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it’

Hannah Höch was a woman and she knew how to change the world. But few of the Dadaists were listening ...
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Burning Man Struggles for the Desert Against Ravers, New Agers, and Hippies in 1998

Burning Man Struggles for the Desert Against Ravers, New Agers, and Hippies in 1998

If someone takes their clothes off in the desert, it’s no more a political statement than it is an invitation to sex. It’s just another mode of experience. Get over it. ...
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Buy Prints Gorgeous Art Prints With Free Shipping at The Flashbak Shop

Gorgeous Art Prints With Free Shipping at The Flashbak Shop

We're delighted to announce that our new art prints shop is open.     All ...
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The 1924 Mikiphone Was The World’s First Pocket Record Player

The 1924 Mikiphone Was The World’s First Pocket Record Player

The pocket size phonograph sponsored by the Moulin Rouge ...
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Brilliant Colour Photographs of an almost Swinging London in 1968

Brilliant Colour Photographs of an almost Swinging London in 1968

"Some of the sights I took time to photograph - I wish I had taken more and more that reflected the culture of the sixties." RB Reed ...
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Photographing The Beatles : When Astrid Kirchherr Styled The Group In Pictures and Moptops

Photographing The Beatles : When Astrid Kirchherr Styled The Group In Pictures and Moptops

One night in Hamburg, 1960, photographer Astrid Kirchherr's life changed forever ...
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Murder by the Book: Tom Adams’ Brilliant Agatha Christie Covers

Murder by the Book: Tom Adams’ Brilliant Agatha Christie Covers

You can judge a book by its cover, it just depends on the talents of the artist and their understanding of the book they are illustrating. ...
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A Japanese Guide To Beating Killer Flu from 1918

A Japanese Guide To Beating Killer Flu from 1918

Spanish Flu hit Japan hard. Hundreds of thousands died. The government issued books and these posters to help people recognise and beat the virus ...
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My Goal is to Rule the World! – Brilliant Photos of Pre-fame Madonna in 1982 by Richard Corman

My Goal is to Rule the World! – Brilliant Photos of Pre-fame Madonna in 1982 by Richard Corman

No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself. ...
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Inside Jayne Mansfield’s “Pink Palace,” the Graceland of Hollywood

Inside Jayne Mansfield’s “Pink Palace,” the Graceland of Hollywood

I didn't come to Hollywood to be the girl next door. I came to be a movie star... ...
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The Chance that Brought David Bowie to Nic Roeg for ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’

The Chance that Brought David Bowie to Nic Roeg for ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’

Roeg knew he had found the man to play the lead in his next film The Man Who Fell to Earth—the story of humanoid alien called Thomas Jerome Newton, who comes to this world in search of water. ...
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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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