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19th Century Portraits Of “Russian Types” by William Carrick

19th Century Portraits Of “Russian Types” by William Carrick

In September 1859 Edinburgh-born William Carrick opened a studio in St Petersburg. With John MacGregor, Carrick produced portraits of locals he called 'Russian Types', sold as cartes-de-visite to tourists. ...
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Meet the Davis Divan: The Outrageous Three-Wheeled Sedan that Almost Made It

Meet the Davis Divan: The Outrageous Three-Wheeled Sedan that Almost Made It

In 1948 the car must have looked like the future to many a prospective auto buyer—that is, had Davis ever delivered on his promises to mass produce the vehicle. ...
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Schoolboy Strikes To Avoid The Cane From Mr Bottoms – 1960

Schoolboy Strikes To Avoid The Cane From Mr Bottoms – 1960

In 1960 a teenager rebelled against the cane at his British school ...
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Ronald McDonald Adventures in Scouting : A Troubling 1970s Magazine

Ronald McDonald Adventures in Scouting : A Troubling 1970s Magazine

In the 1970s Ronald McDonald was scouting for girls and boys... ...
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Living in Color: The Pleasures and Terrors of Childhood

Living in Color: The Pleasures and Terrors of Childhood

Here's a color version of Robert E. Jackson black and white Pleasures and Terrors of Childhood. ...
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Kissing On A Rainy Beach: Bruce Davidson’s Photographs of 1960s Britain

Kissing On A Rainy Beach: Bruce Davidson’s Photographs of 1960s Britain

"I was free to encounter life. I was open and didn't have any agenda. There ...
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Buy Prints The Great White Silence: Herbert Ponting’s Portraits from Captain Scott’s Antarctic Expedition

The Great White Silence: Herbert Ponting’s Portraits from Captain Scott’s Antarctic Expedition

Ponting, who died in 1935, is best known for photographing Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole in 1911/12 ...
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Hotpants, Cigarettes, Harp Lager and Guinness – A Belfast Student Party in 1970

Hotpants, Cigarettes, Harp Lager and Guinness – A Belfast Student Party in 1970

It's a student party in Wolseley Street in Belfast - what would be called the ...
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Terry-Thomas, Jimmy Tarbuck And The Diamond Cigarette Holder Heist

Terry-Thomas, Jimmy Tarbuck And The Diamond Cigarette Holder Heist

  TERRY-Thomas had arrived. It wasn’t exactly overnight but most people thought so. It was ...
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Ed Ruscha’s 1966 Photos of the Sunset Strip

Ed Ruscha’s 1966 Photos of the Sunset Strip

Nearly everything about the Los Angeles appealed to him—the endless sprawl, the two-story apartment houses with outdoor stairways, the hot rods, the jazz clubs, the billboards, the sunrises and sunsets, the boulevards that led to the ocean. ...
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Sweet Way to Go Gay! Wonderful Spangles ads from the 1950s

Sweet Way to Go Gay! Wonderful Spangles ads from the 1950s

  When Spangles were introduced to the British public in 1950 sweets and sugar were ...
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The Soviet Doctor Who Cut Out His Own Appendix

The Soviet Doctor Who Cut Out His Own Appendix

"This is it… I have to think through the only possible way out - to operate on myself… It's almost impossible… but I can't just fold my arms and give up..." ...
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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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