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The History of the Chopper: “The Ultimate American Folk Art Movement”

The History of the Chopper: “The Ultimate American Folk Art Movement”

The golden age of the Chopper reached its peak in 1969, with the release of Dennis Hopper’s cult classic Easy Rider ...
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Love, Music and Fear In New York City In The Summer 1973

Love, Music and Fear In New York City In The Summer 1973

  For the DOCUMERICA Project (1971-1977), the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hired around ...
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Stay Broke, Shoot Film: Alain Bibal’s Iconic Rock Photography

Stay Broke, Shoot Film: Alain Bibal’s Iconic Rock Photography

Born in France in 1964, Bibal started taking photographs in his late-teens and early-twenties but "nothing really serious." Any dreams he harboured were sidelined when he started work and focussed on having a regular life. This, of course, all changed on his fiftieth birthday. ...
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Beyond the Bus: The Story of Rosa Parks’ Lifetime of Civil Rights Activism

Beyond the Bus: The Story of Rosa Parks’ Lifetime of Civil Rights Activism

Known to schoolchildren everywhere as the “brave lady who wouldn’t give up her seat,” few are aware that Parks began her activist career over 20 years before her refusal in 1955 sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott ...
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Women At War: Lush Kodachrome Photos Of Engineers At The Douglas Aircraft Company

Women At War: Lush Kodachrome Photos Of Engineers At The Douglas Aircraft Company

"American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft Company, give important help in producing dependable planes for their men at the front, Long Beach, California" ...
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The True Blue Cookery Book – 1977

The True Blue Cookery Book – 1977

Highlights and lowlights from 'an assembly of recipes contributed by conservative members of parliament and their wives' ...
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Too pinko for Dan or How Slim Pickens replaced Peter Sellers as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove

Too pinko for Dan or How Slim Pickens replaced Peter Sellers as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove

Kubrick had optioned Peter George’s book Red Alert and was working on a screenplay with George when he realised the impossibility of making a melodrama out such an horrific subject and thought the only rational response was to make “a nightmare comedy." ...
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See No Evil: A Vintage Guide To Television Taboos

See No Evil: A Vintage Guide To Television Taboos

"TV gals can't show too much leg or bust. They can't be seen in flimsy lace dainties. They can't wear too-tight swathers. And as for kissing - it must be dignified and cool." ...
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Pennie Smith’s Candid Photos of The Clash During their First U.S. Tour in 1979

Pennie Smith’s Candid Photos of The Clash During their First U.S. Tour in 1979

Rock photographer Pennie Smith has never seen her London Calling cover photo of Paul Simonon about to smash his bass at the Palladium in New York as the crowning achievement of her career. ...
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Reel Stories: Photographs from a Lost Roll of Film (Los Angeles, 1930)

Reel Stories: Photographs from a Lost Roll of Film (Los Angeles, 1930)

These photographs come from a lost roll of film found in an antique store in Downtown Los Angeles. ...
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Watching Aldous Huxley Die – 1963

Watching Aldous Huxley Die – 1963

As he lay dying, Laura Huxley asked her husband if he wanted some LSD. He did. This is what she saw... ...
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New York’s  Lower East Side Punk Scene In Photos From the Early 1980s

New York’s Lower East Side Punk Scene In Photos From the Early 1980s

As squatters took over abandoned buildings, living side by side with black and Latinx residents, they immersed themselves in the sound of hardcore, punk, and hip hop exemplified by bands like The Clash, Beastie Boys, Bad Brains, Black Flag, the Misfits, and Minor Threat. ...
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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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