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The Radical Art of The Black Panther, the Revolution’s Newspaper from 1967 to 1980

The Radical Art of The Black Panther, the Revolution’s Newspaper from 1967 to 1980

Every revolutionary movement has its graphic art—bold lines, eye-catching colors, slogans aplenty. It is a form so well-worn as to have become cliché, a mode of communication that evolved with advertising and newspapers and used the same technologies. So it was with the Black Panther Party for Self Defense... ...
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The Horror, The Horror! Dark and Disturbing Paintings of Death and Disease

The Horror, The Horror! Dark and Disturbing Paintings of Death and Disease

At one point in his life, Richard Tennant Cooper had dreams of some day being recognised as one of the best artists in the world. ...
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Dear Grateful Dead: Illustrated Letters from Deadheads To The Band

Dear Grateful Dead: Illustrated Letters from Deadheads To The Band

Fans' love for the Grateful Dead is manifest in hundreds of letters enclosed in decorated ...
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The Austere Beauty of Louis Kahn’s 1963 Salk Institute for Biological Research, “Arguably the Defining Work of the Greatest American Architect”

The Austere Beauty of Louis Kahn’s 1963 Salk Institute for Biological Research, “Arguably the Defining Work of the Greatest American Architect”

Built between 1962 and 1963, the complex reflects the joint beliefs of both Kahn and Jonas Salk, discoverer of the polio vaccine, who gave the architect a brief for “a facility worthy of a visit by Picasso.” ...
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New York City in the Summer of 1938

New York City in the Summer of 1938

New York City in the summer of 1938 was wet. On June 28, 1.69 inches of rain fell on the city - a record for the date. On July 23, 2.40 inches of rain fell. Minding where they stepped, photographers Jack Allison, Sheldon Dick, Walker Evans and Russell Lee photographed the city as pat of the Farm Security Administration's aim to record American life between 1935 and 1944. ...
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The Patients of Prestwich Mental Hospital in a Documentary Photo Series from 1972

The Patients of Prestwich Mental Hospital in a Documentary Photo Series from 1972

Martin Parr's photographs of people trapped in a place of last resort... ...
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Can You Survive…? Lobby Cards for ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’?

Can You Survive…? Lobby Cards for ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’?

A simple tag line that appeared on the original film poster for Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in 1974. ...it happened. ...
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Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Poetic Treasury of Life

Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Poetic Treasury of Life

“Did you ever know that a flower, once withered and freshened again, becomes an immortal flower, – that is, that it rises again?” – Emily Dickinson ...
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They Came to a Cinema Near You!: Attack of the B-Movie Posters

They Came to a Cinema Near You!: Attack of the B-Movie Posters

Scene: A poster exhibition in Hollywood sometime in the mid-1950s. Cool, young, twenty-something movie producer ...
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More Of Us: Photographer Michael Carlebach Notices The Americans We Don’t See

More Of Us: Photographer Michael Carlebach Notices The Americans We Don’t See

"I look for meaning at the edges of things, avoiding the incendiary characters who bully their way into our lives whether we like it or not' - Michael Carlebach ...
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The Controversial Erotic Rope Bondage Photographs of Nobuyoshi Araki (NSFW)

The Controversial Erotic Rope Bondage Photographs of Nobuyoshi Araki (NSFW)

The moral authorities construed exhibiting such art as an unacceptable crossing of boundaries, a legitimizing of images that disturb and arouse the public. ...
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White Slaves, Sinful Sisters or Playthings of Passion – Reginald Heade was your Man!

White Slaves, Sinful Sisters or Playthings of Passion – Reginald Heade was your Man!

Reginald Heade's beautifully painted buxom sirens, not unusually depicted in déshabillé, adorned many hard-boiled thrillers during the forties and fifties... ...
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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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