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Helmut Newton Imagines a World Without Men

Helmut Newton Imagines a World Without Men

Despite his reputation as a sexist pervert, the women in Newton’s life - including Grace Jones, Isabella Rossellini, Charlotte Rampling, Claudio Schiffer, Anna Wintour, and his wife and partner, June, also a photographer - adored him ...
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The Buick Y-Job, the First Concept Car, Designed and Built in 1938

The Buick Y-Job, the First Concept Car, Designed and Built in 1938

It seems like the concept car should be as old as the car itself. Every ...
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The Earliest Surviving Images of the White House and a Sitting U.S. President, Taken at the Start of the Mexican-American War by “the American Daguerre”

The Earliest Surviving Images of the White House and a Sitting U.S. President, Taken at the Start of the Mexican-American War by “the American Daguerre”

The images taken by daguerreotypist and Welsh immigrant John Plumbe, Jr. open a window onto a pivotal time in American history ...
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Portraits and Dreams: Snapshots of Appalachian Children in Kentucky c. 1975

Portraits and Dreams: Snapshots of Appalachian Children in Kentucky c. 1975

Wendy Ewald gave children cameras and the tools to make photographs of their dreams, fears, desires and worlds ...
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Fabulous Photographs of Cruising Van Nuys Boulevard In 1972

Fabulous Photographs of Cruising Van Nuys Boulevard In 1972

Rick McCloskey's fabulous photographs of a vanished Californian youth culture ...
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‘The Unruliness of Leisure’: Photographs of European Summers from 1979-1984

‘The Unruliness of Leisure’: Photographs of European Summers from 1979-1984

Every summer from the late 1970s through the mid ’80s SERGIO PURTELL would buy an inexpensive roundtrip ticket from New York to London, and from there get a Eurail pass. Traveling cheaply, he could move freely around Europe... ...
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Lester Beall For The U.S. Department of Agriculture – 1930s

Lester Beall For The U.S. Department of Agriculture – 1930s

Lester Beall (1903 – 1969) was an American graphic designer notable as a leading proponent ...
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Mamie Van Doren Gives Advice on Love, Sex, and How to Have ‘Wild Experiences’

Mamie Van Doren Gives Advice on Love, Sex, and How to Have ‘Wild Experiences’

Van Doren was one of the '50s three (celluloid) graces alongside Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield. She had the smarts and pizazz to make her indelible mark on modern culture. She knew what she had and how to to market it. ...
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People Spending An Evening in Carlisle’s Oldest Pub in 1975

People Spending An Evening in Carlisle’s Oldest Pub in 1975

In 1975 John J Brady was studying art at Carlisle college. He took a part-time job in the King's Head pub. And one day he took these pictures ...
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Portraits of Die Halbstarken, Swiss Rock ‘n’ Roll Rebel Teens from the 1960s and 70s

Portraits of Die Halbstarken, Swiss Rock ‘n’ Roll Rebel Teens from the 1960s and 70s

“Karlheinz Weinberger was from Switzerland??! You gotta be kidding me. I first thought! His photos ...
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Coppers: Brilliant Photographs of British Police in the 1980s

Coppers: Brilliant Photographs of British Police in the 1980s

Photographer Dave Sinclair captured Britain at a time of social unrest. As official photographer for The Militant, Dave saw first hand the turmoil in his native Liverpool, Belfast and London, where he now lives. His used his camera to record a time of strife and protest. ...
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Buy Prints Out of the Shadows – Gerda Taro, War Photographer

Out of the Shadows – Gerda Taro, War Photographer

Gerta Pohorylle adopted the professional name of "Gerda Taro" after the Japanese artist Tarō Okamoto although initially Taro and Capa shared the name "Robert Capa" derived from Endre Friedmann's Budapest street nickname "Cápa" which means "Shark" in Hungarian. A significant amount of what is credited as Robert Capa's early work was almost certainly photographed by Taro. ...
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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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