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Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

You know the story, or a version of it, if you’ve seen 24 Hour Party People. New Order—or rather, their manager Rob Gretton—opens a club with Factory Records’ Tony Wilson in 1982. From the start, it’s a financial disaster... ...
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Murder and Mystery on The Brooding Streets of New York City With Weegee

Murder and Mystery on The Brooding Streets of New York City With Weegee

The New York City of Arthur Fellig, aka, Weegee, was dangerous, voyeuristic and utterly thrilling ...
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Remembering Kowloon Walled City, The Lawless Outpost that Was Once the Most Densely-Populated Place on Earth

Remembering Kowloon Walled City, The Lawless Outpost that Was Once the Most Densely-Populated Place on Earth

In 1987, an administrative decision to demolish the city was made, undergoing a multiphase process to its completion in 1993. ...
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Going Down The London Underground in the Later 1980s

Going Down The London Underground in the Later 1980s

Paul Baldesare was taking photographs on the London Underground between 1987 and 1990. Like Tony ...
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Watching them Watching the Parade To Recruit Civilian Defense Volunteers – Washington DC, 1943

Watching them Watching the Parade To Recruit Civilian Defense Volunteers – Washington DC, 1943

In July 1943, Esther Bubley trained her camera on the faces of spectators massed in Washington DC to watch the parade to recruit civilian defense volunteers. ...
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Parking Snap: The Satisfaction of Matching Cars With Streets in 1970s New York City

Parking Snap: The Satisfaction of Matching Cars With Streets in 1970s New York City

Between 1976 and 1978 Langdon Clay walked New York City and Hoboken photographing cars that blended in with their streets and stores ...
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Thomas Annan’s Powerful Photographs of ‘The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow’ 1868

Thomas Annan’s Powerful Photographs of ‘The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow’ 1868

Glasgow hasn't always been that wee stinky joby in the bathtub as some poor souls might think. ...
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Nazis, Traitors and Bloody Murderers – The Astonishing History of London’s Poshest Square

Nazis, Traitors and Bloody Murderers – The Astonishing History of London’s Poshest Square

Owned by Hugh Grosvenor, the 7th Duke of Westminster and the world’s richest person under thirty, the land came into the family when his ancestor, Sir Thomas Grosvenor, married a 12 year old girl called Mary Davis in 1677. ...
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When Stanley Kubrick Saw Gorgeous George Wrestle In 1949 Chicago

When Stanley Kubrick Saw Gorgeous George Wrestle In 1949 Chicago

"Oh, my, what a strut. If only this man had been born in the barnyard. ...
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A Softer Side of Lead Belly: the Legendary Bluesman’s Life in Pictures

A Softer Side of Lead Belly: the Legendary Bluesman’s Life in Pictures

When Lead Belly first toured the newspapers cried out, ‘Sweet savage from the swamplands, here to play a few concerts for you between murders’ ...
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Kodachrome Stories : Beautiful Found Photographs from the Mid-20th Century

Kodachrome Stories : Beautiful Found Photographs from the Mid-20th Century

Highlights from Lee Shulman's wonderful Anonymous Project for lost and found Kodachrome slides ...
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New York City Crowds In The Early And Mid 20th Century

New York City Crowds In The Early And Mid 20th Century

Photographs of crowds of people in the city that never sleeps ...
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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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