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New York City by Martin Lewis – Edward Hopper’s Mentor Captures America’s Success And Failure

New York City by Martin Lewis – Edward Hopper’s Mentor Captures America’s Success And Failure

In the 1930s an Australian emigree captured the essence of the city ...
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Santa On Shrooms: A Trippy 1943 Comic Book

Santa On Shrooms: A Trippy 1943 Comic Book

Enjoy this 1943 comic book featuring a psychedelic mushroom chomping Santa Claus. It's sort of a bonkers take-off on Alice in Wonderland but with added Santa. ...
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‘Adverts of Britain’s Yesteryear’ – The 1950s

‘Adverts of Britain’s Yesteryear’ – The 1950s

These ads created during the years after WW2 were almost works of art and skilfully created by hand by wonderfully talented artists and illustrators who worked tirelessly for hours if not days to achieve almost perfect results. ...
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Peter Cushing as ‘the screen’s most fantastic fiend’ in ‘Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed’

Peter Cushing as ‘the screen’s most fantastic fiend’ in ‘Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed’

In his forties, Peter Cushing had his first major success starring as Winston Smith in Nigel Kneale's adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984. Its huge success led to Cushing be cast as the Baron in Hammer's The Curse of Frankenstein--it was the first of five occasions he would play the Baron. ...
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Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant’s Pioneering Photographs of New York City’s 1970s and 80s Graffiti Scene

Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant’s Pioneering Photographs of New York City’s 1970s and 80s Graffiti Scene

The origins of hip hop’s graffiti scene in the crumbling, decaying boroughs of NYC in the 1970s have by now become the stuff of legend ...
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Better Than Sherlock Holmes: Detective Alphonse Bertillon’s Crime Scene Photographs

Better Than Sherlock Holmes: Detective Alphonse Bertillon’s Crime Scene Photographs

According to his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes only had one real rival--the French police detective Alphonse Bertillon. ...
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Secret Movies: Judy Linn photographs Patti Smith

Secret Movies: Judy Linn photographs Patti Smith

They met each other through their boyfriends, New York, the summer of '68. Judy Linn ...
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Found Photos of A Mid-Century Family Christmas

Found Photos of A Mid-Century Family Christmas

Wonderful famsnapshots from a wodnerful time of the year ...
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Pictures of Grainger Market, Newcastle upon Tyne in the 1970s and 1980s

Pictures of Grainger Market, Newcastle upon Tyne in the 1970s and 1980s

These photographs were taken by the late  Jimmy Forsyth and Robert Hope who in the early 1970s took out a bank loan to buy a Rolleiflex camera. ...
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Nijinsky in Pictures: The World-Famous Ballet Dancer Disappears into His Celebrated Roles

Nijinsky in Pictures: The World-Famous Ballet Dancer Disappears into His Celebrated Roles

“I am God in a body,” wrote Vaslav Nijinsky (1879-1944) in his famous Diary. “Everyone has this feeling, but no one uses it.” ...
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Texas In The 1970s: Photos Of Life In The Lone State State

Texas In The 1970s: Photos Of Life In The Lone State State

The Documerica Project was put together by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1971 essentially to document the adverse effects of modern life on the environment... ...
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Jimmy Hoffa Explains the U.S. in 1960:”Nobody in this Country Respects What’s Weak, Believe Me.”

Jimmy Hoffa Explains the U.S. in 1960:”Nobody in this Country Respects What’s Weak, Believe Me.”

Hoffa, the granite-faced Midwestern trucking union president with a flexible relationship to ethics might have seemed like an unlikely famous figure just a few years ago. Now, it’s easy to imagine his broad, bulldog mug and combative style, dodging and weaving in congressional hearings in 2019 to cover for his connections. ...
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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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