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The Communist Party of Great Britain And The Red Menace 1920-1991

The Communist Party of Great Britain And The Red Menace 1920-1991

When the Iron Curtain fell, in 1991 The Communist Party of Great Britain called it ...
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The Art of Seeing:  People of Florida, 1971 – 1995

The Art of Seeing: People of Florida, 1971 – 1995

For three decades Michael Carlebach captured the people and situations we only glimpse ...
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Marilyn Monroe On The Beach With Her Mother In 1929

Marilyn Monroe On The Beach With Her Mother In 1929

“I always felt insecure and in the way, but most of all I felt scared. I guess I wanted love more than anything else in the world.” ...
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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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Murder and Mystery on The Brooding Streets of New York City With Weegee

Murder and Mystery on The Brooding Streets of New York City With Weegee

The New York City of Arthur Fellig, aka, Weegee, was dangerous, voyeuristic and utterly thrilling ...
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Remembering Kowloon Walled City, The Lawless Outpost that Was Once the Most Densely-Populated Place on Earth

Remembering Kowloon Walled City, The Lawless Outpost that Was Once the Most Densely-Populated Place on Earth

In 1987, an administrative decision to demolish the city was made, undergoing a multiphase process to its completion in 1993. ...
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Going Down The London Underground in the Later 1980s

Going Down The London Underground in the Later 1980s

Paul Baldesare was taking photographs on the London Underground between 1987 and 1990. Like Tony ...
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Watching them Watching the Parade To Recruit Civilian Defense Volunteers – Washington DC, 1943

Watching them Watching the Parade To Recruit Civilian Defense Volunteers – Washington DC, 1943

In July 1943, Esther Bubley trained her camera on the faces of spectators massed in Washington DC to watch the parade to recruit civilian defense volunteers. ...
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Parking Snap: The Satisfaction of Matching Cars With Streets in 1970s New York City

Parking Snap: The Satisfaction of Matching Cars With Streets in 1970s New York City

Between 1976 and 1978 Langdon Clay walked New York City and Hoboken photographing cars that blended in with their streets and stores ...
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Thomas Annan’s Powerful Photographs of ‘The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow’ 1868

Thomas Annan’s Powerful Photographs of ‘The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow’ 1868

Glasgow hasn't always been that wee stinky joby in the bathtub as some poor souls might think. ...
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Nazis, Traitors and Bloody Murderers – The Astonishing History of London’s Poshest Square

Nazis, Traitors and Bloody Murderers – The Astonishing History of London’s Poshest Square

Owned by Hugh Grosvenor, the 7th Duke of Westminster and the world’s richest person under thirty, the land came into the family when his ancestor, Sir Thomas Grosvenor, married a 12 year old girl called Mary Davis in 1677. ...
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When Stanley Kubrick Saw Gorgeous George Wrestle In 1949 Chicago

When Stanley Kubrick Saw Gorgeous George Wrestle In 1949 Chicago

"Oh, my, what a strut. If only this man had been born in the barnyard. ...
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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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