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The Glory of Seedy Soho

The Glory of Seedy Soho

Photos from an exhibition celebrating London's most vibrant square mile ...
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Illustrations From Bijutsu Sekai (1893–1896)

Illustrations From Bijutsu Sekai (1893–1896)

Watanabe Seitei's gorgeous illustrations from a 19th Century Japanese book ...
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Incredible Illustrations for Alice’s Adventure’s In Wonderland by Salvador Dalí

Incredible Illustrations for Alice’s Adventure’s In Wonderland by Salvador Dalí

A work of art incorporating rebelliousness, revolution, paradox; distortions of space and time, logic, size, and proportion; disbelief in conventional reality; assimilation of dreams, wordplay, and the ineffable nature of childhood. ...
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A Visual Tour of Brassaï’s Paris – 1930s

A Visual Tour of Brassaï’s Paris – 1930s

“I don't invent anything. I imagine everything... most of the time, I have drawn my ...
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‘Pinocchio-in-The-Uterus’ or ‘A walking Sperm Bank’: What Fellini Thought About ‘Casanova’

‘Pinocchio-in-The-Uterus’ or ‘A walking Sperm Bank’: What Fellini Thought About ‘Casanova’

For years Federico Fellini promised to make a film about Casanova. It was what his producers wanted. They knew it would be a box-office smash. But Fellini had no intention of making such a film as he loathed Casanova. ...
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Portraits of 19th Century Baseball Players (Boston ca. 1890)

Portraits of 19th Century Baseball Players (Boston ca. 1890)

G.E. Gray's terrific studio portraits of baseball stars taken at his Boston studio ...
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Buy Prints Illustrations From The Classic Poems of Childhood (1904)

Illustrations From The Classic Poems of Childhood (1904)

Brilliant paintings from a book of sentimental Victorian poems about candy, love and a poisonous peach that kills two children ...
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Portraits of Captured Native Americans After The Modoc War

Portraits of Captured Native Americans After The Modoc War

These people were captured by the US Army after The Modoc War ended in 1873. ...
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Remember, Remember the 5th of November – Photos of Pain’s Fireworks Factory in 1928

Remember, Remember the 5th of November – Photos of Pain’s Fireworks Factory in 1928

History suggests that the barrels of gunpowder used in the infamous plot to blow up the Parliament of James I in 1605, were “manufactured by a gunpowder manufacturer within earshot of the Bells of Bow”. At that time the only such business was one John Pain, the founder of the modern day Pain's Fireworks company.... ...
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The First Man To Walk In Space Reveals What Really Happened (1965)

The First Man To Walk In Space Reveals What Really Happened (1965)

'As air escaped from the [spacecraft’s air lock], the vacuum of space reached into it like a monster’s claw'. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov began to worry... ...
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A Brief History Lesson on Modern Culture as Told Through the Movie Tie-in Novels of John Burke

A Brief History Lesson on Modern Culture as Told Through the Movie Tie-in Novels of John Burke

John Burke was a writer, a very prolific writer, who wrote about 150 novels, most of which were movie or television tie-in books. ...
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Women On The Homefront Railroad: Epic 1943 Portraits by Jack Delano

Women On The Homefront Railroad: Epic 1943 Portraits by Jack Delano

"I've always felt that photographs for me were primarily for reproduction and for mass distribution. A photograph is something for lots and lots of people to see." ...
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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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