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How I Shot The Cover To Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’

How I Shot The Cover To Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’

'Nevermind' is the second studio album by Nirvana, released on September 24, 1991. Kirk Weddle's cover photo is as recognisable as the music. Here he tells us how he did it ...
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Shopping  at Glasgow’s The Barras Market In 1975

Shopping at Glasgow’s The Barras Market In 1975

John J Brady worked weekends at Glasgow's The Barras market. He took these photograph in 1975 ...
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1966: When Football’s Solid Gold Jules Rimet World Cup Was Stolen In London

1966: When Football’s Solid Gold Jules Rimet World Cup Was Stolen In London

On March 20 1966, the World Cup was on show at the National Stamp Exhibition in Central Hall, Westminster and then it was gone... ...
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Bobcat Pins, Hot Chocolate and Toast – My Cub Scout Log Book (1957)

Bobcat Pins, Hot Chocolate and Toast – My Cub Scout Log Book (1957)

These pages were found at an estate auction in Beverly, New Jersey, a suburb of Philadelphia... ...
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Tenement Kids And The City – Glasgow In 1975

Tenement Kids And The City – Glasgow In 1975

"All of these photos were taken on a weekend return from art college to visit my parents in the east end of Glasgow in 1975" - John J Brady ...
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William Blake’s Illustrations For Dante’s Divine Comedy (1826)

William Blake’s Illustrations For Dante’s Divine Comedy (1826)

Spellbinding drawings from William Blake's last work ...
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Subway : Subterranean New York City (1980)

Subway : Subterranean New York City (1980)

In 1980 Bruce Davidson adopted a military fitness exercise program in readiness to take photographs on the Subway ...
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Summer Weather: Portraits From A 1983 San Francisco TV Station Audition

Summer Weather: Portraits From A 1983 San Francisco TV Station Audition

I found these strips in an envelope. I put them up to the light, and there were all these heads. I had an inkling that they might be interesting, but I really had no idea. ...
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‘Sick Of Goodbys’ : Robert Frank (November 9, 1924 – September 9, 2019)

‘Sick Of Goodbys’ : Robert Frank (November 9, 1924 – September 9, 2019)

"The photos speak of an acceptance of things as they are. the inevitable death of us all" - Lou Reed on Robert Frank ...
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Faces In The Crowds: The 1948 FA Cup

Faces In The Crowds: The 1948 FA Cup

THE 1948 FA Cup was won by Manchester United when they beat Blackpool at Wembley Stadium. United hadn't appeared in an FA Cup Final for 39 years but went on to win 4–2. ...
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Beer Is Good : 20 Vintage Snapshots

Beer Is Good : 20 Vintage Snapshots

A great album of people enjoying a beer (or three) ...
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Illustrated Internal Bodily Functions in Japanese Woodcuts – 1800s

Illustrated Internal Bodily Functions in Japanese Woodcuts – 1800s

In the mid-19th Century, Japanese artists like Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) and Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) depicted ...
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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 Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    Cass Elliot died choking on a ham sandwich; everybody knows that. Except that she didn’t. ...
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    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

      It was a Saturday evening, St Valentine’s Day 1970, when William Jellett first thought he might be Jesus. He was on the London Underground, travelling back from work, and noticed the headline of the newspaper unfurled opposite him: “Cambridge riots — two policemen beaten up”. There had been student protests the ...
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    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    “It kept me from eating it if it was framed on the wall” - Mark Mcloud on his amazing collection of LSD Blotters ...
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    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

      In 1980, Chuck Berry spoke to St Louis-based punk zine Jet Lag (1980 -1991). Berry talked about his first gig, signing with Leonard Chess's Chess Records, his role as a "teenage historian" and "what the kids are listening to these days". He was invited to review some records. Chuck Berry's record ...
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    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    "I humbly invite you to take a stroll through my life in the squatter community of the Lower East Side (LES) in the 1990s," writes Ash Thayer, whose book, Kill City, focuses on New York City squatters, harking back to another age, when city's were not being made overly safe, libraries were valued ...
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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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    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Let's time travel to the 1970s, when the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) was a fun place to study. Michael Jang was a student at CalArts, a school set up by Walt Disney in the 1960s. Jang wandered about the place, aiming the Leica camera he'd bought from a wedding photographer at his ...
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