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The Extraordinary Photos of German Photographer August Sander

The Extraordinary Photos of German Photographer August Sander

In the early 1920s Sander began People of the 20th Century – one of the most ambitious undertakings in the history of photography, the project occupied Sander for some 40 years, from the early 1920s until his death, during which he took portraits of hundreds of German citizens and then categorised them by social type and occupation. ...
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Jonathan Higbee’s Street Photography Captures New York’s Dynamism And Wit

Jonathan Higbee’s Street Photography Captures New York’s Dynamism And Wit

A 21st Century New York moment ...
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Matchbloc: Gorgeous East European Matchboxes

Matchbloc: Gorgeous East European Matchboxes

“After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there was some tobacco in it, and that was something more. Then he felt for matches and he could not find any at all, and that shattered his hopes completely” - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit ...
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Wonderful Photos Backstage at a Frances McLaughlin-Gill Glamour Magazine Shoot in 1952

Wonderful Photos Backstage at a Frances McLaughlin-Gill Glamour Magazine Shoot in 1952

"I preferred to cast models who could act, and my favourites all had the ability to improvise within a situation that I had created." ...
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The Lesbian Gateways Club on the King’s Road and the Killing of Sister George

The Lesbian Gateways Club on the King’s Road and the Killing of Sister George

Between the 9th and 16th of June in 1968 the Gateways club became internationally famous when it appeared as a backdrop to some scenes filmed for The Killing Of Sister George, a movie starring Beryl Reid, Coral Browne and Susannah York. ...
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My Father’s Collection of Cheese Labels from the 1940s and 50s

My Father’s Collection of Cheese Labels from the 1940s and 50s

"This is my father's collection of cheese labels from the 1940s and 50s" - Julian Tysoe ...
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Tyne Pride and Fall: Chris Killip’s Photographs Of Britain’s Vanished Industrial Heartlands

Tyne Pride and Fall: Chris Killip’s Photographs Of Britain’s Vanished Industrial Heartlands

"Even then I had a sense that all this was not going to last, though I had no idea how soon it would all be gone" - Chris Killip ...
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The Life of Prince Omar Ibn Said : The Muslim Slave’s Autobiography (1831)

The Life of Prince Omar Ibn Said : The Muslim Slave’s Autobiography (1831)

"His whole person and gait bear marks of considerable refinement” ...
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Panoramic Photographs by Peter Li Celebrate the Symmetry of Churches

Panoramic Photographs by Peter Li Celebrate the Symmetry of Churches

"Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?" - William Blake ...
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April 1970: Chelsea Fans Waiting for the FA Cup Winners to Arrive at Euston Station

April 1970: Chelsea Fans Waiting for the FA Cup Winners to Arrive at Euston Station

In 1997 a modern-day referee David Elleray reviewed the replay played at Old Trafford, and concluded that the sides would have received six red cards and twenty yellow cards between them, in the modern era of football. ...
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You’re the Top! The Connection Between Socialite Mrs Sweeny, PG Wodehouse and Mussolini

You’re the Top! The Connection Between Socialite Mrs Sweeny, PG Wodehouse and Mussolini

Margaret used to see one man for dinner, plead tiredness and go home, only then to go out with another young man to the Embassy Club or the Café de Paris. At closing hour she and her partner would then ‘float on’ to late nightclubs such as Kate Meyrick’s Silver Slipper. Her father’s only rule was that she absolutely must be dressed for the family breakfast at nine. ...
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Koen Wessing: The Indelible Image of Post-War Conflict

Koen Wessing: The Indelible Image of Post-War Conflict

'You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on' - Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable ...
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    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    Dave Lee's guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book ...
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    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    How snapshots told the story of the day the world changed ...
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    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Some of the best parts of Chandler's notebooks were his compilations of pickpocket lingo, jail house slang, and terms used by Narcs ...
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    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    In January 1948 the Observer film critic, C.A. Lejeune, made no attempt to hide her disapproving tone when reviewing the Boulting Brothers’ Brighton Rock: “Graham Greene’s savage story about a couple of race-course gangs and their fancy ways with a razor is one of the most brutal things I have seen on 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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    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    You know the story, or a version of it, if you’ve seen 24 Hour Party People. New Order—or rather, their manager Rob Gretton—opens a club with Factory Records’ Tony Wilson in 1982. From the start, it’s a financial disaster... ...
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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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    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    This is known as one of medicine's most incredible moments. Imagine a room full of parents sitting at the bedside waiting for the inevitable death of their child. ...
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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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