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Seeing Beauty In A Cold and Wet New York City With Saul Leiter

Seeing Beauty In A Cold and Wet New York City With Saul Leiter

Saul Leiter found signs of something beautiful that connects us all in pictures of a wet New York ...
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Gorgeous Japanese Firework Illustrations From The Late 1800s

Gorgeous Japanese Firework Illustrations From The Late 1800s

These illustrations of 花火, Hanabi (fireworks or “fire flowers”),  advertised Japan's Hirayama Fireworks and Yokoi Fireworks companies in the late 19th century. ...
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Edwin Morgan and William Burroughs Are ‘Somewhere in England’

Edwin Morgan and William Burroughs Are ‘Somewhere in England’

"Push the boat out, compañeros / Push the boat out, whatever the seas…. push it ...
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Thrill List: Quentin Crisp Picks His 10 favourite Gangster Movies

Thrill List: Quentin Crisp Picks His 10 favourite Gangster Movies

"If we go to the movies often enough, and in a sufficiently reverent spirit, they will become more absorbing than the outer world, and the problems of reality will cease to burden us." ...
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Found Photos of the Soviet Summer Camps that Trained Generations of Young Communists

Found Photos of the Soviet Summer Camps that Trained Generations of Young Communists

Every society creates institutions to train children in social mores, civil rituals, and political and religious beliefs—through education, advertising, communal practices, and youth organizations like the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. The Soviet Union was no different. ...
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Boxing Day In Pictures: Wonderful Photos Of December 26 (1900-2000)

Boxing Day In Pictures: Wonderful Photos Of December 26 (1900-2000)

December 26 is St Stephen's Day, when the Church distributed charity boxes to the needy but can also be traced back to when the wealthy gave their servants a box of Christmas treats; hence Boxing Day. ...
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Peter Cushing: His Early Life to Hammer & Star Wars

Peter Cushing: His Early Life to Hammer & Star Wars

Who wants to see me as Hamlet? Very few. But millions want to see me as Frankenstein so that's the one I do. ...
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A Chocolate Box Selection of Celebrity Santa Clauses

A Chocolate Box Selection of Celebrity Santa Clauses

In this gallery from the archives we look at famous faces who over the years ...
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New York City by Martin Lewis – Edward Hopper’s Mentor Captures America’s Success And Failure

New York City by Martin Lewis – Edward Hopper’s Mentor Captures America’s Success And Failure

In the 1930s an Australian emigree captured the essence of the city ...
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Santa On Shrooms: A Trippy 1943 Comic Book

Santa On Shrooms: A Trippy 1943 Comic Book

Enjoy this 1943 comic book featuring a psychedelic mushroom chomping Santa Claus. It's sort of a bonkers take-off on Alice in Wonderland but with added Santa. ...
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‘Adverts of Britain’s Yesteryear’ – The 1950s

‘Adverts of Britain’s Yesteryear’ – The 1950s

These ads created during the years after WW2 were almost works of art and skilfully created by hand by wonderfully talented artists and illustrators who worked tirelessly for hours if not days to achieve almost perfect results. ...
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Peter Cushing as ‘the screen’s most fantastic fiend’ in ‘Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed’

Peter Cushing as ‘the screen’s most fantastic fiend’ in ‘Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed’

In his forties, Peter Cushing had his first major success starring as Winston Smith in Nigel Kneale's adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984. Its huge success led to Cushing be cast as the Baron in Hammer's The Curse of Frankenstein--it was the first of five occasions he would play the Baron. ...
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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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