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Gris Gris, Dr John And The The Night Tripper: Beyond Stoned Magnificence

Gris Gris, Dr John And The The Night Tripper: Beyond Stoned Magnificence

The sleevenotes match Gris Gris’ music for swampy mysticism, bordering on impenetrability to those not versed in Crescent City lore. ...
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‘Hot Pants Galore! – Pictures of a Seedy Soho in March 1972

‘Hot Pants Galore! – Pictures of a Seedy Soho in March 1972

Corruption in Soho – essentially collusion between the ‘pornographers’ and the police in the late sixties and early seventies - was an open secret amongst journalists, lawyers and the police themselves. Although almost no one knew the extent of it. ...
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Sinking Not Drowning : 17 Lush Underwater Photos

Sinking Not Drowning : 17 Lush Underwater Photos

Fabulous snapshots of people cooling down ...
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The Dursley Carnival Pictures (1959)

The Dursley Carnival Pictures (1959)

Brian Candy's photos of the Dursley Carnival pictures were taken in the mid-1950s, on black and white 35mm film, probably using a Praktica camera ...
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Training Sarasota’s Sun Debs (1949)

Training Sarasota’s Sun Debs (1949)

Kodachrome photos of Florida's models undergoing training ...
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Incredible Illustrations From ‘Elektroschutz in 132 Bildern’ (1936)

Incredible Illustrations From ‘Elektroschutz in 132 Bildern’ (1936)

Highlights from Elektroschutz in 132 Bildern’ (Electrical Protection in 132 Pictures) by Viennese physician Stefan Jellinek (1878-1968) ...
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Julia Margaret Cameron’s Victorian Photographs of Famous Men and Fair Women

Julia Margaret Cameron’s Victorian Photographs of Famous Men and Fair Women

Julia Margaret Cameron's lavish soft-focus portraits are all the better for their flaws ...
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When Princess Diana Danced With John Travolta (1985)

When Princess Diana Danced With John Travolta (1985)

'At midnight, I had to tap her on her shoulder, and I had to say, “Would you care to dance.” She turned around and dipped her head in that Lady Diana way and we were off for 15 minutes dancing' - John Travolta ...
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There Used To Be A Chelsea Drugstore On The King’s Road

There Used To Be A Chelsea Drugstore On The King’s Road

I went down to the Chelsea drugstore To get your prescription filled I was standing in line with Mr. Jimmy And man, did he look pretty ill We decided that we would have a soda My favorite flavour, cherry red ...
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Whipped Hair and Kerouac : A Year In Lowell, Massachusetts (1987 – 1988)

Whipped Hair and Kerouac : A Year In Lowell, Massachusetts (1987 – 1988)

These photographs of an American city reflect the dream of a country bound by daring, freedom and energy ...
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‘The Key-way to the Highway ‘ – The Rise and Fall of Raleigh – 100 years of Ads.

‘The Key-way to the Highway ‘ – The Rise and Fall of Raleigh – 100 years of Ads.

With muscles that answer quickly to call of the resolute will, With cheeks that glow and eyes that shine, An pulses that loud and thrill, I fly through the beautiful Kingdom That beckons my wheel and me, Queen of the world of girlhood, And sovereign of all I see. - Margaret E. Sangster. ...
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For Every Fighter a Woman Worker! Photographs of Women Doing Their Bit in WW1 (1918)

For Every Fighter a Woman Worker! Photographs of Women Doing Their Bit in WW1 (1918)

Pictures of women on the Home Front ...
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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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