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Buy Prints Writers, Actors, Singers, Stars: Carl Van Vechten’s Iconic Portrait Photographs

Writers, Actors, Singers, Stars: Carl Van Vechten’s Iconic Portrait Photographs

Carl Van Vechten's career as a writer almost ended as soon as it began. Van ...
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Oh I Say! Glorious Vintage Tennis posters 1895-1956

Oh I Say! Glorious Vintage Tennis posters 1895-1956

What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be “sorry” and admiration of each other’s play crosses the net as frequently as the ball. J.M. Barrie ...
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Gorgeous Portraits of Katharine Hepburn By George Hoyningen-Huene In 1934

Gorgeous Portraits of Katharine Hepburn By George Hoyningen-Huene In 1934

In 1934, hymned photographer George Hoyningen-Huene met movie star Katherine Hepburn and created these beautiful photos ...
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The Stunning, High-Art Rock Photography of Art Kane

The Stunning, High-Art Rock Photography of Art Kane

Careers like that of photographer Art Kane seem like exactly what the phrase “strength to strength” was meant to describe. ...
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People of Harlem, New York in July 1970

People of Harlem, New York in July 1970

During the late 1960s and early 1970s Harlem had seen some of its worst times historically. The drug addiction rate in Harlem was 10 times the average rate of NYC and many middle class Harlemites moved out to other boroughs and suburbs for better schools and safer streets.” ...
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Sunsets by Félix Vallotton (1865 – 1925)

Sunsets by Félix Vallotton (1865 – 1925)

Félix Edouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865 – December 29, 1925) was a Swiss painter and ...
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Beachcomber bars, ballrooms and snooker halls…Fabulous John Hinde Butlin’s Postcards

Beachcomber bars, ballrooms and snooker halls…Fabulous John Hinde Butlin’s Postcards

Huge, beautifully lit 'narrative tableaux' of Beachcomber bars, gardens, outdoor swimming pools, ballrooms and snooker halls ...
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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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    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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    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Part of the Documerica project - a program sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to "photographically document subjects of environmental concern" in the United States from about 1972 to 1977. ...
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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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    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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    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    There is a moment in every one of those tacky beauty pageants when the sweaty, middle-aged host asks each young swimsuit-clad contestant "If there was one thing you could do what would it be?" The answers are always the same: "I would bring about world peace." It's a nice thought--though ...
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