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“Hands, Hips, Head, Grind, Grate and Grasp” – Woodrow Wilson’s Training Camp in 1917

“Hands, Hips, Head, Grind, Grate and Grasp” – Woodrow Wilson’s Training Camp in 1917

In August 1917 famed keep-fitter Walter Camp took the President's Cabinet in an exercise class ...
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Photographing The Brighton Bomb and Other News

Photographing The Brighton Bomb and Other News

John Downing was there when the IRA detonated a bomb to kill Margaret Thatcher and her Cabinet ...
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Counting to 12 with Pablo Neruda: How Keeping Quiet Leads Us To The Human Brotherhood

Counting to 12 with Pablo Neruda: How Keeping Quiet Leads Us To The Human Brotherhood

Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still. - Pablo Neruda, ...
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Philippe Halsman’s Fabulous Jump Portraits

Philippe Halsman’s Fabulous Jump Portraits

"When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears” ...
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‘I shall meet thee bravely’: Beethoven finds a reason to live at a moment of desperation

‘I shall meet thee bravely’: Beethoven finds a reason to live at a moment of desperation

When things are bad, and the problems of life seem almost insurmountable, I think of Beethoven, the great composer who was a mere twenty-eight when he started going deaf... ...
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The Night Tallulah Bankhead Met Gerald du Maurier in London in 1923

The Night Tallulah Bankhead Met Gerald du Maurier in London in 1923

There were a few people in the room including Daphne, Gerald’s 15 year old daughter, who after Tallulah had left turned to her father and said, “Daddy, that’s the most beautiful girl I ever saw in my life.” ...
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Inge Morath Photographs Saul Steinberg and his Brilliant Mask Parties

Inge Morath Photographs Saul Steinberg and his Brilliant Mask Parties

Saul Steinberg drew masks on brown paper bags and invited friends and guest to wear them. ...
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“It’s alright to be nude, but if it moves, it’s rude.” – The Extraordinary History of the Windmill Theatre

“It’s alright to be nude, but if it moves, it’s rude.” – The Extraordinary History of the Windmill Theatre

The World's press used the Windmill Theatre to symbolise London’s ‘Blitz Spirit’ often illustrated by similar stories of a naked young woman breaking the no-moving rule by either giving a V-sign or thumbing her nose at a nearby exploding bomb. ...
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American Prospects: Photographs Behind The Facade (1979-1983)

American Prospects: Photographs Behind The Facade (1979-1983)

Joel Sternfeld’s photographs show us America beyond the superficial ...
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When Blimps, Dirigibles and Airships Ruled the Sky

When Blimps, Dirigibles and Airships Ruled the Sky

Vintage snapshots from the collection of Robert E. Jackson of airships passing overhead ...
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How Medieval Artists Saw Elephants: Claws, Hooves, Trunks Like Trumpets, and Castles on Their Backs

How Medieval Artists Saw Elephants: Claws, Hooves, Trunks Like Trumpets, and Castles on Their Backs

The artists had apparently never seen elephants, but they featured prominently in bestiaries ...
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The Villagers: Life-Size Crocheted Figures by Liisa Hietanen

The Villagers: Life-Size Crocheted Figures by Liisa Hietanen

Knitting for men and action men has entertained us for some time. Whether it be ...
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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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