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How Augustus Washington, an African American Abolitionist and Daguerreotypist, Helped Establish Photography in West Africa

How Augustus Washington, an African American Abolitionist and Daguerreotypist, Helped Establish Photography in West Africa

The photographer’s sliding scale made portraiture widely accessible to a variety of people from different classes ...
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Buy Prints Anarchy Lives: A Brilliant Photograph and Print of Stratford, London In 1976

Anarchy Lives: A Brilliant Photograph and Print of Stratford, London In 1976

Artist Judy Greenway tells us about her fantastic photograph 'Anarchy Lives' ...
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Snapshots of Kenneth Anger

Snapshots of Kenneth Anger

There aren't that many photographs of Kenneth Anger smiling. They're usually portraits of the great avant-garde filmmaker looking serious, or brooding, or, shall we say?, slightly demonic? ...
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Striking Photographs of The Lunar Surface from The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite (1874)

Striking Photographs of The Lunar Surface from The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite (1874)

British scientists James Nasmyth and James Carpenter's detailed close-ups of the lunar surface made from plaster models. ...
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Buy Prints Dead! Undead!: The Many Posters of Bela Lugosi’s ‘Dracula’ 1931

Dead! Undead!: The Many Posters of Bela Lugosi’s ‘Dracula’ 1931

The appeal of Browning's Dracula rests with Bela Lugosi's performance. He was the first to portray the Count on screen. Lugosi's Dracula is the one against which all other Counts must be judged. ...
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Late 1960s Photographs of Saigon Going about Its Business While the Vietnam War Rages

Late 1960s Photographs of Saigon Going about Its Business While the Vietnam War Rages

The city’s daily business continued. In the photos here from the late sixties, we can see the odd reminder that a war rages on multiple battlefronts outside the city—a few armed South Vietnamese soldiers here and there. ...
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Symphonies of Brown and Green – Beautiful British Pre-war British Travel Posters

Symphonies of Brown and Green – Beautiful British Pre-war British Travel Posters

                 
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A Night in Atlantis: Nick Peacock’s Photographs of Clubbing in 1990

A Night in Atlantis: Nick Peacock’s Photographs of Clubbing in 1990

In November 1990, Peacock was commissioned by a music magazine to document one night at a Glasgow club... ...
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Fight Dem Back! The Battle of Lewisham: When The Fascists Were Beaten in 1977

Fight Dem Back! The Battle of Lewisham: When The Fascists Were Beaten in 1977

On Saturday 13 August 1977, the fascists were ready to march through south-east London. The Locals were ready and waiting to fight them off ...
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The Remarkable Photographs of Umbo (Otto Umbehr)

The Remarkable Photographs of Umbo (Otto Umbehr)

Umbo's work has an uncanny, surreal edge that pushes it beyond simple documentation... ...
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The Man From Mars Visits New York and Other Pictures that Made the News

The Man From Mars Visits New York and Other Pictures that Made the News

The NYWTS published many great and historical photographs which reflect the era they were taken in as much as they reverberate with events today. ...
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An Illustrated Police Equipment Catalogue from 1891

An Illustrated Police Equipment Catalogue from 1891

A scarce police equipment catalogue featuring numerous illustrations of weaponry and equipment, and doubling as a policeman’s ‘how-to’ guide. ...
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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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