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“Not a Bed of Roses” –  Burt Glinn’s Photos of the Cuban Revolution (1959)

“Not a Bed of Roses” – Burt Glinn’s Photos of the Cuban Revolution (1959)

“At 11pm. on December 31, 1958, I decided to fly to Cuba. At daybreak, I ...
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A Wonderful Collection of Mid-Century Postcards of Airports From Around the World

A Wonderful Collection of Mid-Century Postcards of Airports From Around the World

What? Only sixteen hours! Are you sure? — Orville Wright, on hearing about the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic, 15 June 1919. ...
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‘Sex n Drugs n Rock n Roll’ – The Last Stonehenge Free Festival in Photos (1984)

‘Sex n Drugs n Rock n Roll’ – The Last Stonehenge Free Festival in Photos (1984)

Dave Trippas was one of the 70,000 revellers who made it to the last Stonehenge Free Festival in 1984 ...
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London Library Miraculously Survives Blitz (1940)

London Library Miraculously Survives Blitz (1940)

On the evening of 27 September, 1940, Germany bombed London's Holland House. But they missed the books ...
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Extraordinary Arts Studies From West Of Zanzibar By William Mortensen (1928)

Extraordinary Arts Studies From West Of Zanzibar By William Mortensen (1928)

From the outset, Mortensen's subject matter was unabashedly theatrical, bizarre and often louche. He was an ardent admirer of Goya and Daumier, and with his Hollywood access to costumes, sets, makeup and masks, created elaborate tableaux vivants in his studio. ...
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A Night at O’Reilly’s Bar in New York in 1942

A Night at O’Reilly’s Bar in New York in 1942

Marjory Collins, a self-confessed "rebel looking for a cause", took these photographs of customers at an Irish bar on New York City's Third Avenue. Some of whom were sailors on their last night of leave.  ...
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Brilliant Expressionist Dance Costumers From The 1920s

Brilliant Expressionist Dance Costumers From The 1920s

In 1924 married avant-garde dancers Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt posed for Minya Diez-Dührkoop. It ended in murder ...
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A Dying Miner’s Letter To His Beloved Wife (1902)

A Dying Miner’s Letter To His Beloved Wife (1902)

On May 19th, 1902, 26 miners working at the Fraterville Coal Mine in Tennessee, were trapped underground. They wrote these letters. ...
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Brian Griffin – Extraordinary Photographs

Brian Griffin – Extraordinary Photographs

Brian Griffin's photographs show us the extraordinary in the everyday ...
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The Passenger: The Day Jack Nicholson & Maria Schneider Visited the Brunswick Centre in 1974

The Passenger: The Day Jack Nicholson & Maria Schneider Visited the Brunswick Centre in 1974

“Isn’t it funny”, decides The Girl, “The way things happen - all the shapes we make” ...
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A Photographic History of Hip-Hop

A Photographic History of Hip-Hop

Photographing rappers from Jay-Z to Kanye West and Salt 'n' Pepper - a visual history of hip-hop' ...
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Fascinating Photos of the Muslim Community in Cardiff’s Tiger Bay, 1943

Fascinating Photos of the Muslim Community in Cardiff’s Tiger Bay, 1943

"It was a dirty, smelly, rotten and romantic district, an offence and an inspiration, and I loved it" - Howard Spring ...
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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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