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‘Humours of London’ by Tony Sarg: Wonderful Illustrations of the City From Above (1914)

‘Humours of London’ by Tony Sarg: Wonderful Illustrations of the City From Above (1914)

This series of 13 colour illustrations by Tony Sarg (April 21, 1880–March 7, 1942) take ...
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The Strange and Wonderous Creations of Tony Sarg: America’s “Master Puppeteer”

The Strange and Wonderous Creations of Tony Sarg: America’s “Master Puppeteer”

Working with fellow puppeteer Bil Baird, Sarg built a 60-foot balloon dragon, tottering Felix the Cat, hummingbird, and other buoyant wonders that made their way down the Manhattan streets. ...
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Remembering It Wholesale: Behind the Scenes of ‘Total Recall’ 1990

Remembering It Wholesale: Behind the Scenes of ‘Total Recall’ 1990

Total Recall was the perfect vehicle for Schwarzenegger--part action movie, part outsider allegory, part revolutionary tale--and confirmed his status as the biggest box office star of the decade. ...
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Perchance to Dream: Photographing Sleep

Perchance to Dream: Photographing Sleep

Twenty vintage snapshots of watching people sleep ...
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Production 9401: Hitchcock Brings Some Very Ordinary People Together, Much Horror and Death Ensue

Production 9401: Hitchcock Brings Some Very Ordinary People Together, Much Horror and Death Ensue

Hitchcock pitched Psycho to Paramount who freaked at the film's controversial and disturbing subject matter and told Hitchcock he would never get any big star to appear in such a movie. The director was unfazed--'I'll make do,' he said. ...
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‘I Want to Die’: Peter Cushing’s Death Wish

‘I Want to Die’: Peter Cushing’s Death Wish

It was two-or-three weeks since I had written - a list of questions in search ...
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‘The Gun is Good! The Penis is Evil!’: Sean Connery Explains why he Starred in ‘Zardoz’

‘The Gun is Good! The Penis is Evil!’: Sean Connery Explains why he Starred in ‘Zardoz’

"Many things are changed by the knowledge you’re not going to die" ...
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The Girl In The Cosmo Painting – A 1950s New York City Love Story

The Girl In The Cosmo Painting – A 1950s New York City Love Story

Nancy Tompkins transports us to New York City on the 1950s in the company of her mother's debut in Cosmopolitan magazine ...
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Aubrey Beardsley’s Illustrations for Oscar Wilde’s ‘Salome’

Aubrey Beardsley’s Illustrations for Oscar Wilde’s ‘Salome’

Aubrey Beardsley's artistic career began with schoolboy doodles in the margins of text books and ended in near poverty drawing erotica for private collectors. ...
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Buy Prints Gorgeous Prints Of Ernst Haeckel’s Illustrations of Nature

Gorgeous Prints Of Ernst Haeckel’s Illustrations of Nature

Seeing wonder in the small - looking at the 'German Darwin's' world of wonder ...
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Sleeping With the Devil – Medieval Illuminations of Demonic Sex

Sleeping With the Devil – Medieval Illuminations of Demonic Sex

A weird and wonderful collection of bedroom hijinks with creatures from Hell ...
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“Black Monday”: Elvis Joins the Army, then Loses His Mother, Meets 14-Year-Old Priscilla, and Gets Hooked on Pills

“Black Monday”: Elvis Joins the Army, then Loses His Mother, Meets 14-Year-Old Priscilla, and Gets Hooked on Pills

As his pompadour fell to the floor, Elvis reportedly joked, “Well, hair today, gone tomorrow. ...
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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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