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The Harrowing Photographs and Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

The Harrowing Photographs and Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

Photographed by Arnold Genthe, George R. Lawrence, and others, the photos reveal the vast extent of the devastation and the scale of the military relief effort. They also sometimes show the breakdown of civil order, as in photographs of soldiers looting during the fires. ...
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Japanese Artist Itsuo Kobayashi Draws Every Meal He’s Eaten for Over 30 Years – Food Is Love

Japanese Artist Itsuo Kobayashi Draws Every Meal He’s Eaten for Over 30 Years – Food Is Love

For decades chef Itsuo Kobayashi has been drawing his food diaries, creating a visual record of an enduring love ...
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Chris Killip (11th July 1946 – 13th October 2020)

Chris Killip (11th July 1946 – 13th October 2020)

British documentary photographer Chris Killip left behind a fantastic archive of documentary photography ...
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Mourners Watching Robert F. Kennedy’s Funeral Train Pass By From New York City to Washington DC on June 8 1968

Mourners Watching Robert F. Kennedy’s Funeral Train Pass By From New York City to Washington DC on June 8 1968

People came in their hundreds of thousands to salute Robert F. Kennedy's funeral train. Paul Fusco was watching them ...
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Imogen Cunningham’s Sublime Close-Up Botanical Photos from the 1920s and 30s

Imogen Cunningham’s Sublime Close-Up Botanical Photos from the 1920s and 30s

Imogen Cunningham’s close-up botanical photographs, taken during the 1920s and 30s, have been compared to Georgia O’Keeffe’s abstract flower paintings made around the same time, but the resemblance may have little to do with influence. ...
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Watching Manchester Railways in the 1980s

Watching Manchester Railways in the 1980s

Until 1989, the British State ran the country's railways. David Rostance watched the trains come and go ...
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Edwin Rosskam’s Poignant Photos of Black Americans on the South Side of Chicago, 1941

Edwin Rosskam’s Poignant Photos of Black Americans on the South Side of Chicago, 1941

"There are things you can only say with words, there are things you can say better with pictures than any other way." ...
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‘A Fantasy Documentary’: Derek Jarman’s Punk Rock Movie ‘Jubilee’

‘A Fantasy Documentary’: Derek Jarman’s Punk Rock Movie ‘Jubilee’

I was first introduced to Derek Jarman through a porn mag. It was one of the few my older brother hid in a Subbuteo box in the front bedroom cupboard. ...
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Photos of the Rough and Tumble Tour de France Throughout the Years

Photos of the Rough and Tumble Tour de France Throughout the Years

The first tours were more like what is now called adventure or endurance racing than the smooth, calculated road races we're used to seeing on TV ...
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Life On Mississippi Delta Plantations By Marion Post Walcott – c.1939

Life On Mississippi Delta Plantations By Marion Post Walcott – c.1939

“I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the ...
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The Totally Rad Fad of 1980’s BMX

The Totally Rad Fad of 1980’s BMX

The odd little bikes don’t look ridable by anyone over twelve years old - and they are, in point of fact, designed for children. But... ...
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Brooklyn in Kodachrome – 1970s New York City In Color

Brooklyn in Kodachrome – 1970s New York City In Color

"My pix, mostly developed by me in my Boro Park darkroom in the 70's. Remember ...
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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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