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Leaving And Waving: An Artist’s Moving Tribute To Leaving The People You Love

Leaving And Waving: An Artist’s Moving Tribute To Leaving The People You Love

For 27 years, Deanna Dikeman took photographs as she waved goodbye and drove away from visiting her parents at their home in Sioux City, Iowa. ...
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Making Mistakes & Paying the Price in Vintage Horror Comics

What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Making Mistakes & Paying the Price in Vintage Horror Comics

Horror comic books like Tales from the Crypt followed the same basic pattern with nearly every story: somebody makes bad choices, and that somebody learns a lesson the hard way.... usually in a creatively grotesque fashion. ...
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‘After the War’ – Stunning Photos of South Korea 1956-1963 by Han Youngsoo

‘After the War’ – Stunning Photos of South Korea 1956-1963 by Han Youngsoo

The war had taken away many things. Not only had it mercilessly trampled down on our beloved families and neighbours, but also their happiness, hope, and furthermore humanity itself. As if that wasn’t enough, by the end it had utterly destroyed everything on the face of the earth leaving behind ruins, despair, famine and sorrow. ...
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Frida Kahlo’s Photo Album – At Home With Mrs Diego Rivera

Frida Kahlo’s Photo Album – At Home With Mrs Diego Rivera

Intimate photographs of the woman who became perhaps the world's most famous female artist ...
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‘Humours of London’ by Tony Sarg: Wonderful Illustrations of the City From Above (1914)

‘Humours of London’ by Tony Sarg: Wonderful Illustrations of the City From Above (1914)

This series of 13 colour illustrations by Tony Sarg (April 21, 1880–March 7, 1942) take ...
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The Strange and Wonderous Creations of Tony Sarg: America’s “Master Puppeteer”

The Strange and Wonderous Creations of Tony Sarg: America’s “Master Puppeteer”

Working with fellow puppeteer Bil Baird, Sarg built a 60-foot balloon dragon, tottering Felix the Cat, hummingbird, and other buoyant wonders that made their way down the Manhattan streets. ...
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Remembering It Wholesale: Behind the Scenes of ‘Total Recall’ 1990

Remembering It Wholesale: Behind the Scenes of ‘Total Recall’ 1990

Total Recall was the perfect vehicle for Schwarzenegger--part action movie, part outsider allegory, part revolutionary tale--and confirmed his status as the biggest box office star of the decade. ...
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Perchance to Dream: Photographing Sleep

Perchance to Dream: Photographing Sleep

Twenty vintage snapshots of watching people sleep ...
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Production 9401: Hitchcock Brings Some Very Ordinary People Together, Much Horror and Death Ensue

Production 9401: Hitchcock Brings Some Very Ordinary People Together, Much Horror and Death Ensue

Hitchcock pitched Psycho to Paramount who freaked at the film's controversial and disturbing subject matter and told Hitchcock he would never get any big star to appear in such a movie. The director was unfazed--'I'll make do,' he said. ...
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‘I Want to Die’: Peter Cushing’s Death Wish

‘I Want to Die’: Peter Cushing’s Death Wish

It was two-or-three weeks since I had written - a list of questions in search ...
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‘The Gun is Good! The Penis is Evil!’: Sean Connery Explains why he Starred in ‘Zardoz’

‘The Gun is Good! The Penis is Evil!’: Sean Connery Explains why he Starred in ‘Zardoz’

"Many things are changed by the knowledge you’re not going to die" ...
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The Girl In The Cosmo Painting – A 1950s New York City Love Story

The Girl In The Cosmo Painting – A 1950s New York City Love Story

Nancy Tompkins transports us to New York City on the 1950s in the company of her mother's debut in Cosmopolitan magazine ...
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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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