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‘Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got’ – A Sophia Loren Gallery

‘Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got’ – A Sophia Loren Gallery

Sophia Loren grew up in the outskirts of Naples, one of Italy's poorest regions, and was so skinny as a child that other children in her neighbourhood named her "The Toothpick." ...
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Buy Prints Gustave Doré Illustrations for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – 1877

Gustave Doré Illustrations for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – 1877

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the ...
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Émile Zola’s Photographs of Turn-of-the-Century Paris

Émile Zola’s Photographs of Turn-of-the-Century Paris

I dare… to tell the truth, with all the force born of the revulsion of an honest man, since the normal channels of justice have failed to do so. - Émile Zola ...
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Filming Sky West And Crooked in England, 1964

Filming Sky West And Crooked in England, 1964

Amateur photographer Brian Candy's pictures of a star family shooting a movie ...
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How the First Pride Parades Radicalized the Gay Rights Movement in the 1970s

How the First Pride Parades Radicalized the Gay Rights Movement in the 1970s

The Gay Liberation Front included an upraised fist in its symbolism and helped organize the first Pride march in New York in 1970. ...
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Tokyo In Deep : Unseen Photographs by Issei Suda (1970s-80s)

Tokyo In Deep : Unseen Photographs by Issei Suda (1970s-80s)

A new book of her work features life in Tokyo and surrounding prefectures in the 1970s and '80s. ...
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Buy Prints How The East Was Won: When Leonid Brezhnev Met Chuck Connors

How The East Was Won: When Leonid Brezhnev Met Chuck Connors

Leonid Brezhnev, the fifth leader of the USSR, ran across the tarmac to bear-hug his favourite actor, and star of his favourite TV show The Rifleman, Chuck Connors, who then lifted the Soviet leader clear off the ground. ...
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‘Your Audience is a Single Reader’: John Steinbeck’s Advice on Writing

‘Your Audience is a Single Reader’: John Steinbeck’s Advice on Writing

"...the following are some of the things I have had to do to keep from going nuts" ...
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J.R.R. Tolkien’s Brilliant Reply To Nazis in 1930s Germany – ‘I Regret I Am No Gifted Jew’

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Brilliant Reply To Nazis in 1930s Germany – ‘I Regret I Am No Gifted Jew’

In 1938 German publishers wanted to translate J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit into German. The author's reply is damning ...
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A Brilliant Collection of Behind the Scenes Photos of Alfred Hitchcock Movies

A Brilliant Collection of Behind the Scenes Photos of Alfred Hitchcock Movies

“Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf." ...
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Gene Bilbrew : The Singing Fetish Artist And His Fabulous 1960s Pulp Fiction Sex Covers

Gene Bilbrew : The Singing Fetish Artist And His Fabulous 1960s Pulp Fiction Sex Covers

The brilliant artist whose pictures sold paperback sex by the millions and died without trace ...
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Jimi Hendrix, Louise Brooks, Nazis and Spies – A Brief History of St James’s

Jimi Hendrix, Louise Brooks, Nazis and Spies – A Brief History of St James’s

‘I was living beyond my means – who doesn’t at seventeen? – in a flat at 49A Pall Mall.’ - Louise Brooks ...
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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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