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With a Shower Curtain and a Few Pairs of Keds, 67-Year-Old Grandmother Emma Gatewood Becomes the First Woman to Hike the Entire Appalachian Trail

With a Shower Curtain and a Few Pairs of Keds, 67-Year-Old Grandmother Emma Gatewood Becomes the First Woman to Hike the Entire Appalachian Trail

In 1955, Emma Gatewood of Ohio, the first woman to complete the hike, did so on her second try. She was 67 years old, a mother of 11, and a grandmother of many more. ...
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Buy Prints Writers, Actors, Singers, Stars: Carl Van Vechten’s Iconic Portrait Photographs

Writers, Actors, Singers, Stars: Carl Van Vechten’s Iconic Portrait Photographs

Carl Van Vechten's career as a writer almost ended as soon as it began. Van ...
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Oh I Say! Glorious Vintage Tennis posters 1895-1956

Oh I Say! Glorious Vintage Tennis posters 1895-1956

What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be “sorry” and admiration of each other’s play crosses the net as frequently as the ball. J.M. Barrie ...
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Gorgeous Portraits of Katharine Hepburn By George Hoyningen-Huene In 1934

Gorgeous Portraits of Katharine Hepburn By George Hoyningen-Huene In 1934

In 1934, hymned photographer George Hoyningen-Huene met movie star Katherine Hepburn and created these beautiful photos ...
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The Stunning, High-Art Rock Photography of Art Kane

The Stunning, High-Art Rock Photography of Art Kane

Careers like that of photographer Art Kane seem like exactly what the phrase “strength to strength” was meant to describe. ...
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People of Harlem, New York in July 1970

People of Harlem, New York in July 1970

During the late 1960s and early 1970s Harlem had seen some of its worst times historically. The drug addiction rate in Harlem was 10 times the average rate of NYC and many middle class Harlemites moved out to other boroughs and suburbs for better schools and safer streets.” ...
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Sunsets by Félix Vallotton (1865 – 1925)

Sunsets by Félix Vallotton (1865 – 1925)

Félix Edouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865 – December 29, 1925) was a Swiss painter and ...
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Beachcomber bars, ballrooms and snooker halls…Fabulous John Hinde Butlin’s Postcards

Beachcomber bars, ballrooms and snooker halls…Fabulous John Hinde Butlin’s Postcards

Huge, beautifully lit 'narrative tableaux' of Beachcomber bars, gardens, outdoor swimming pools, ballrooms and snooker halls ...
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Behind the Scenes of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver: A Classic 1975 Village Voice Report from Filming on the Bowery

Behind the Scenes of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver: A Classic 1975 Village Voice Report from Filming on the Bowery

“That was when the metaphor of the taxi cab occurred to me. That is what I was: this person in an iron box, a coffin, floating round the city, but seemingly alone.” Paul Schrader ...
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Hannah Höch, The Artist Who Wanted ‘to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it’

Hannah Höch, The Artist Who Wanted ‘to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it’

Hannah Höch was a woman and she knew how to change the world. But few of the Dadaists were listening ...
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Burning Man Struggles for the Desert Against Ravers, New Agers, and Hippies in 1998

Burning Man Struggles for the Desert Against Ravers, New Agers, and Hippies in 1998

If someone takes their clothes off in the desert, it’s no more a political statement than it is an invitation to sex. It’s just another mode of experience. Get over it. ...
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Buy Prints Gorgeous Art Prints With Free Shipping at The Flashbak Shop

Gorgeous Art Prints With Free Shipping at The Flashbak Shop

We're delighted to announce that our new art prints shop is open.     All ...
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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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