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Bright Lights, Big City: Vintage Postcards from Las Vegas

Bright Lights, Big City: Vintage Postcards from Las Vegas

Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky saw the potential to make money out in the desert. Shaking the dust off his two-tone shoes, Siegel looked at the mix of army bases, gasoline stations, and religious buildings and said, "Here's where the future begins." ...
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Face Values: The Surreal and Disturbing Collage Portraits of John Stezaker

Face Values: The Surreal and Disturbing Collage Portraits of John Stezaker

For the past fifty years, Stezaker has been making some of the most arresting and disturbing collages from found photographs, postcards, book plates, and magazines. ...
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Hackney Then And Now: London Historian Records 30 Years of Change In Photographs

Hackney Then And Now: London Historian Records 30 Years of Change In Photographs

Richard Yeboah shows us dramatic changes in Hackney over the past 30 years ...
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Falling In Love With Barcelona’s Romany People: Photographs of 1960s Montjuïc by Jacque Leonard

Falling In Love With Barcelona’s Romany People: Photographs of 1960s Montjuïc by Jacque Leonard

Jacques Léonard's cinematic photographs of Romany people living in the Barcelona hills ...
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Civil War: Dramatic Scenes From the British Miners Strike of 1984-85

Civil War: Dramatic Scenes From the British Miners Strike of 1984-85

The government and media on both the left and right wasted no time in framing the labor crisis as a war—between unions and “right to work” miners, and between disgruntled unionists and police ...
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Me My Dog And I: 30 Lovely Vintage Jack Russell Photographs

Me My Dog And I: 30 Lovely Vintage Jack Russell Photographs

“I am because my little dog knows me” - Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons / Objects, 1915 ...
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Rare Color Photos from the German Front During World War I

Rare Color Photos from the German Front During World War I

Photography and modern warfare grew up, side by side, on battlefields, burial grounds, and in the trenches and ruined European cities of World War I. In France, German photographer Hans Hildenbrand took what are some of the few color photographs of the front lines. ...
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Wilhelm Werner von Zimmer’s ‘Dance of Death’ from 1540

Wilhelm Werner von Zimmer’s ‘Dance of Death’ from 1540

In the Late Middle Ages, there were illustrated books called Danse Macabre or the Dance of Death which were used to focus the mind on life's short stretch. ...
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John Cohen’s Portraits of Appalachian Folk Singers (and Bob Dylan) from the Early 1960s

John Cohen’s Portraits of Appalachian Folk Singers (and Bob Dylan) from the Early 1960s

Cohen “told stories and documented characters from the inside as a photographer and musician steeped in the history of American folk music.” ...
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The Pioneering Novels and Kick-Ass Thrills of Alistair MacLean

The Pioneering Novels and Kick-Ass Thrills of Alistair MacLean

When HMS Ulysses was published in 1955, it became an instant best-seller. Its film rights were bought for £30,000 and Picture Post paid £5,000 for serial rights. Alistair MacLean had arrived. ...
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‘Flesh Gordon’: Saving Earth from Planet Porno’s Emperor Wang and his Evil Sex Ray

‘Flesh Gordon’: Saving Earth from Planet Porno’s Emperor Wang and his Evil Sex Ray

Welcome to the Planet Porno, where evil Emperor Wang the Perverted (a clue there, methinks) has his nasty sex ray pointed at Earth. ...
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21 Vintage Snapshots Of Women in Killer Sunglasses

21 Vintage Snapshots Of Women in Killer Sunglasses

Sunglasses killed the parasol, made the cool look cooler and the needy look vain and insecure. This is how to wear them... ...
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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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