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The Chattanooga Sit-Ins  – February 1960

The Chattanooga Sit-Ins – February 1960

On February 19 around 200 black students began a peaceful protest against segregation at four businesses on one block in Chattanooga, Tennessee ...
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“Actionpacked Gayness” – The First Issues of Gay News from 1972

“Actionpacked Gayness” – The First Issues of Gay News from 1972

There are as many laughs to be had in its pages as there are sorrowful stories and angry rants – all of life is in these pages. ...
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Elliott Erwitt: An Itinerant Life In Photographs

Elliott Erwitt: An Itinerant Life In Photographs

"I do not think that you get up in the morning with the goal to take an iconic picture. It simply does not work that way. Perhaps you get lucky enough to get a picture that is good and that gets good use and is then seen by many people. I suppose a picture has to be seen by many people before it can be iconic. That is part of the definition." ...
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Wonderful Photographs of Sydney Fifty Years Ago

Wonderful Photographs of Sydney Fifty Years Ago

Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive and smart." - Baz Luhrmann ...
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Creativity from Boredom and Routine: On Kawara’s ‘I Got Up’ Postcards (1968 – 1979)

Creativity from Boredom and Routine: On Kawara’s ‘I Got Up’ Postcards (1968 – 1979)

Between 1968 and 1979, On Kawara created the series 'I Got Up', in which he sent picture postcards to friends and family, noting his time of getting up, the date, the place of residence and the name and address of the receiver. ...
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Roberto Donetta Lost And Found: Extraordinary Photographs Of A Wandering Master

Roberto Donetta Lost And Found: Extraordinary Photographs Of A Wandering Master

Nicknamed the 'Vagabondo' his glass plates of rural life in Alpine Switzerland were stored undiscovered in an attic until they were found in the 1970s. ...
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The Beatles Abbey Road Photoshoot – August 8 1969

The Beatles Abbey Road Photoshoot – August 8 1969

On August 8 1979, The Beatles were on a photoshoot for their eleventh studio album, Abbey Road. The album's cover remains as recognisable as the music it holds. ...
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Summer Smoke : Liming With Debbie Harry, The Clash and Joey Ramone

Summer Smoke : Liming With Debbie Harry, The Clash and Joey Ramone

Hanging out at the beach and larking about in the sun with the smoking hot pop stars ...
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Dalston in the 1980s

Dalston in the 1980s

Brilliant found photographs of London's Hackney in the 1980s ...
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Lockheed’s Hilarious Anti-Drugs Shorts (1969)

Lockheed’s Hilarious Anti-Drugs Shorts (1969)

"I turned a corner and walked right into a wall..." ...
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Club Americana and the Flamingo All-Nighter on Wardour Street, 1952-1965

Club Americana and the Flamingo All-Nighter on Wardour Street, 1952-1965

In March 1962, a month after Billy Fury had dismissed them as his backing band - he felt they were 'too jazzy' - Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames started a three-year residency at The Flamingo Club... ...
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27 Mid-Century Snapshots of People Eating Picnics

27 Mid-Century Snapshots of People Eating Picnics

Celebrating the joy of eating outdoors ...
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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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