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The Suffragette Photographs of Christina Broom

The Suffragette Photographs of Christina Broom

Lugging her camera equipment around while in her forties and less than five feet tall she became the first female press photographer... ...
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Walking Wounded: The Strange and Disturbing Artwork of Alex Eckman-Lawn

Walking Wounded: The Strange and Disturbing Artwork of Alex Eckman-Lawn

So a lot of my work is trying to get that feeling—that weird mysterious feeling, like you’re almost scared and intimidated. It’s something bigger than just sitting there in a room with people, but also sort of fun. ...
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February 1961: At Home with the Profumos

February 1961: At Home with the Profumos

"There  had clearly been illicit affairs, dalliances before he ever met me. He knew the technique, what to say and when to brush his hand on your arm or accidentally touch your breast...the one time Tory MP for Kettering, was a man with wandering eyes - and hands to match." - Christine Keeler ...
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Northern Life: Mik Critchlow’s Brilliant Photographs of An English Coal Town (1977-1990)

Northern Life: Mik Critchlow’s Brilliant Photographs of An English Coal Town (1977-1990)

Life in Ashington, Northumberland, once reputed to be the largest mining village in Europe ...
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Josef Skvorecky Recites The Nazis 10 Rules To Combat Jazz

Josef Skvorecky Recites The Nazis 10 Rules To Combat Jazz

Jazz was entartete musik (“degenerate music”), or as Nazi spin doctor Joseph Goebbels put it, jazz was "jungle music" ...
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1980: Kevin Keegan Models His Harry Fenton Fashion Range

1980: Kevin Keegan Models His Harry Fenton Fashion Range

In September 1980, a year or so after he released his single Head Over Heels in Love, England footballer Kevin Keegan unleashed the "Kevin Keegan Collection at Harry Fenton" on the unsuspecting British public. ...
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The Astonishing Cinematic Autochrome Photography of Heinrich Kühn

The Astonishing Cinematic Autochrome Photography of Heinrich Kühn

Dressed in his linen suit, Panama hat, gold-rimmed spectacles and luxuriant moustache, Kühn directed his wife and children to perform for his camera. ...
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Living Mannequins in A Carnaby Street Shop Window (1966)

Living Mannequins in A Carnaby Street Shop Window (1966)

The shoppers in the street stopped to watch although it wasn't long before the Metropolitan police did too, resulting in a visit to Marlborough Street Magistrates Court for Henry Moss, the owner of the boutique, and a fine of two pounds. ...
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‘I Will Avenge Their Deaths’: Reading An Auschwitz Inmate’s Buried Letters

‘I Will Avenge Their Deaths’: Reading An Auschwitz Inmate’s Buried Letters

“I wanted and I want to live, to revenge the deaths of Dad and Mum, and that of my beloved little sister Nelli" - Marcel Nadjari, Auschwitz 1944 ...
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The Extraordinary WW2 Sketchbook of Victor Lundy

The Extraordinary WW2 Sketchbook of Victor Lundy

For D-Day Lundy and his company were thrown into the infantry. Lundy couldn't believe it and recalled during an oral history interview that during lectures, he "never listened, I was busy sketching." But soon, "I sort of took to it. ... war experience just hypnotizes young men." ...
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Casual Behind the Scenes Photos From the 1967 Filming of Planet of the Apes

Casual Behind the Scenes Photos From the 1967 Filming of Planet of the Apes

Writer, engineer, and spy Pierre Boulle drew heavily on the sciences of mathematics, physics, astronomy, and evolutionary biology for his 1963 novel La Planète des singes, published in English translations (with taxonomic confusion) as Monkey Planet in the UK and Planet of the Apes in the US. ...
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26 Sensational Color Photos Of 1890s Meiji Japan

26 Sensational Color Photos Of 1890s Meiji Japan

No one knows who took these superb hand-colored albumen prints of Japan in the 1890s. ...
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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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