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Buy Prints Eugene Atget – The Photographer who Walked Fin de Siècle Paris

Eugene Atget – The Photographer who Walked Fin de Siècle Paris

Atget (1857-1927) wandered the streets of Paris dressed in a large black cloak and floppy hat, his camera slung on its tripod over his shoulder. He drifted until something triggered a response which he stopped to photograph. ...
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The Lada Riva and Niva: Iconic Soviet Cars that Outlasted the Empire

The Lada Riva and Niva: Iconic Soviet Cars that Outlasted the Empire

The car did not pass any modern safely tests, had a reputation for maximum affordability and minimal reliability, and was beloved by thousands of Russians ...
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Nightclubbing : Brian Sweeney’s Epic Photographs of Glasgow’s Legendary Sub Club

Nightclubbing : Brian Sweeney’s Epic Photographs of Glasgow’s Legendary Sub Club

The Sub Club was established in 1987. It's a medium-sized club situated at 22 Jamaica Street, Glasgow. The venue holds the record for being "the longest running underground dance club in the world" ...
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The Rolling Stones, Vince Taylor, Denis Nilsen and the History of Centre Point, Denmark Street and St Giles

The Rolling Stones, Vince Taylor, Denis Nilsen and the History of Centre Point, Denmark Street and St Giles

In July 1949 fifty-four residents wrote a letter to the Times about living in St Giles Rookery under the headline "A Sanitary Remonstrance": "We live in muck and filth. We aint got no priviz, no dust bins, no drains, no water-splies, and no drain or suer in the hole place." ...
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The Communist Party of Great Britain And The Red Menace 1920-1991

The Communist Party of Great Britain And The Red Menace 1920-1991

When the Iron Curtain fell, in 1991 The Communist Party of Great Britain called it ...
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The Art of Seeing:  People of Florida, 1971 – 1995

The Art of Seeing: People of Florida, 1971 – 1995

For three decades Michael Carlebach captured the people and situations we only glimpse ...
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Marilyn Monroe On The Beach With Her Mother In 1929

Marilyn Monroe On The Beach With Her Mother In 1929

“I always felt insecure and in the way, but most of all I felt scared. I guess I wanted love more than anything else in the world.” ...
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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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    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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