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Photos of Germany and Holland in 1981 by Simon Nowicki

Photos of Germany and Holland in 1981 by Simon Nowicki

Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist. - Julie Burchill ...
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The Beautiful, Surreal and Sometimes Sinister Artwork of Jaco Putker

The Beautiful, Surreal and Sometimes Sinister Artwork of Jaco Putker

Putker claims there is no one influence on his work other than his abiding interest in "Nature and in how nature works, in its perfection and self-reliance and its power of rejuvenation and destruction. In how it has a profound effect on not just me, but on virtually every human being." ...
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Here Be Monsters: Richard Doyle’s Illustrations for ‘Jack and the Giants’

Here Be Monsters: Richard Doyle’s Illustrations for ‘Jack and the Giants’

Jack and the Giants was a variation on the book Jack the Giant Killer, which some of us had read or seen on Sunday afternoon television. ...
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Leaving And Waving: An Artist’s Moving Tribute To Leaving The People You Love

Leaving And Waving: An Artist’s Moving Tribute To Leaving The People You Love

For 27 years, Deanna Dikeman took photographs as she waved goodbye and drove away from visiting her parents at their home in Sioux City, Iowa. ...
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Making Mistakes & Paying the Price in Vintage Horror Comics

What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Making Mistakes & Paying the Price in Vintage Horror Comics

Horror comic books like Tales from the Crypt followed the same basic pattern with nearly every story: somebody makes bad choices, and that somebody learns a lesson the hard way.... usually in a creatively grotesque fashion. ...
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‘After the War’ – Stunning Photos of South Korea 1956-1963 by Han Youngsoo

‘After the War’ – Stunning Photos of South Korea 1956-1963 by Han Youngsoo

The war had taken away many things. Not only had it mercilessly trampled down on our beloved families and neighbours, but also their happiness, hope, and furthermore humanity itself. As if that wasn’t enough, by the end it had utterly destroyed everything on the face of the earth leaving behind ruins, despair, famine and sorrow. ...
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Frida Kahlo’s Photo Album – At Home With Mrs Diego Rivera

Frida Kahlo’s Photo Album – At Home With Mrs Diego Rivera

Intimate photographs of the woman who became perhaps the world's most famous female artist ...
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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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    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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