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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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Aubrey Beardsley’s Illustrations for Oscar Wilde’s ‘Salome’

Aubrey Beardsley’s Illustrations for Oscar Wilde’s ‘Salome’

Aubrey Beardsley's artistic career began with schoolboy doodles in the margins of text books and ended in near poverty drawing erotica for private collectors. ...
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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 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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    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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    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    "I humbly invite you to take a stroll through my life in the squatter community of the Lower East Side (LES) in the 1990s," writes Ash Thayer, whose book, Kill City, focuses on New York City squatters, harking back to another age, when city's were not being made overly safe, libraries were valued ...
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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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    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Let's time travel to the 1970s, when the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) was a fun place to study. Michael Jang was a student at CalArts, a school set up by Walt Disney in the 1960s. Jang wandered about the place, aiming the Leica camera he'd bought from a wedding photographer at his ...
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