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Walking Wounded: The Strange and Disturbing Artwork of Alex Eckman-Lawn

Walking Wounded: The Strange and Disturbing Artwork of Alex Eckman-Lawn

So a lot of my work is trying to get that feeling—that weird mysterious feeling, like you’re almost scared and intimidated. It’s something bigger than just sitting there in a room with people, but also sort of fun. ...
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February 1961: At Home with the Profumos

February 1961: At Home with the Profumos

"There  had clearly been illicit affairs, dalliances before he ever met me. He knew the technique, what to say and when to brush his hand on your arm or accidentally touch your breast...the one time Tory MP for Kettering, was a man with wandering eyes - and hands to match." - Christine Keeler ...
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Northern Life: Mik Critchlow’s Brilliant Photographs of An English Coal Town (1977-1990)

Northern Life: Mik Critchlow’s Brilliant Photographs of An English Coal Town (1977-1990)

Life in Ashington, Northumberland, once reputed to be the largest mining village in Europe ...
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Josef Skvorecky Recites The Nazis 10 Rules To Combat Jazz

Josef Skvorecky Recites The Nazis 10 Rules To Combat Jazz

Jazz was entartete musik (“degenerate music”), or as Nazi spin doctor Joseph Goebbels put it, jazz was "jungle music" ...
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1980: Kevin Keegan Models His Harry Fenton Fashion Range

1980: Kevin Keegan Models His Harry Fenton Fashion Range

In September 1980, a year or so after he released his single Head Over Heels in Love, England footballer Kevin Keegan unleashed the "Kevin Keegan Collection at Harry Fenton" on the unsuspecting British public. ...
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The Astonishing Cinematic Autochrome Photography of Heinrich Kühn

The Astonishing Cinematic Autochrome Photography of Heinrich Kühn

Dressed in his linen suit, Panama hat, gold-rimmed spectacles and luxuriant moustache, Kühn directed his wife and children to perform for his camera. ...
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Living Mannequins in A Carnaby Street Shop Window (1966)

Living Mannequins in A Carnaby Street Shop Window (1966)

The shoppers in the street stopped to watch although it wasn't long before the Metropolitan police did too, resulting in a visit to Marlborough Street Magistrates Court for Henry Moss, the owner of the boutique, and a fine of two pounds. ...
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‘I Will Avenge Their Deaths’: Reading An Auschwitz Inmate’s Buried Letters

‘I Will Avenge Their Deaths’: Reading An Auschwitz Inmate’s Buried Letters

“I wanted and I want to live, to revenge the deaths of Dad and Mum, and that of my beloved little sister Nelli" - Marcel Nadjari, Auschwitz 1944 ...
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The Extraordinary WW2 Sketchbook of Victor Lundy

The Extraordinary WW2 Sketchbook of Victor Lundy

For D-Day Lundy and his company were thrown into the infantry. Lundy couldn't believe it and recalled during an oral history interview that during lectures, he "never listened, I was busy sketching." But soon, "I sort of took to it. ... war experience just hypnotizes young men." ...
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Casual Behind the Scenes Photos From the 1967 Filming of Planet of the Apes

Casual Behind the Scenes Photos From the 1967 Filming of Planet of the Apes

Writer, engineer, and spy Pierre Boulle drew heavily on the sciences of mathematics, physics, astronomy, and evolutionary biology for his 1963 novel La Planète des singes, published in English translations (with taxonomic confusion) as Monkey Planet in the UK and Planet of the Apes in the US. ...
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26 Sensational Color Photos Of 1890s Meiji Japan

26 Sensational Color Photos Of 1890s Meiji Japan

No one knows who took these superb hand-colored albumen prints of Japan in the 1890s. ...
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Portraits of London At War by Toni Frissell – January 1942

Portraits of London At War by Toni Frissell – January 1942

“I became so frustrated with fashions that I wanted to prove to myself that I could do a real reporting job” - Toni Frissell ...
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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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