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Once the ‘Swingingest Street in the World’: Pictures of Carnaby Street 1924-1975

Once the ‘Swingingest Street in the World’: Pictures of Carnaby Street 1924-1975

"Perhaps nothing illustrates the new swinging London better than narrow, three-block-long Carnaby Street, which is crammed with a cluster of the 'gear' boutiques where the girls and boys buy each other clothing..." - TIME magazine, April 1966 ...
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24 Great Photos From ‘Physical Training for Business Men’ (1917)

24 Great Photos From ‘Physical Training for Business Men’ (1917)

Writer H. Irving Hancock's keep fit regime will cure your physical slovenliness and transform you into a success ...
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William P. Gottlieb’s Glorious Images from the Golden Age Of Jazz

William P. Gottlieb’s Glorious Images from the Golden Age Of Jazz

Writer and photographer William P. Gottlieb documented the jazz scene in New York City and Washington, D.C., from 1938 to 1948, a time seen as the "Golden Age of Jazz". ...
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Emma Kunz: The Divine Pendulum Drawings

Emma Kunz: The Divine Pendulum Drawings

Emma was a Swiss telepathic healer, researcher and artist "gifted" with prophetic powers. Her magical work predates the Spyrograph ...
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‘The Morning After’ – Evocative Photos of London 1980-85

‘The Morning After’ – Evocative Photos of London 1980-85

Trevor Fletcher lived in London on and off during the late 1970s and 80s. His photographs are a fantastic record of the time. ...
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Gorgeous Celestial Maps and Illustrations From A 19th Century American Atlas

Gorgeous Celestial Maps and Illustrations From A 19th Century American Atlas

Highlights from Yaggy's Geographical Portfolio - 'Comprising Physical, Political, Geological, and Astronomical Geography' ...
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Bunny Yeager : The Brilliant Selfies

Bunny Yeager : The Brilliant Selfies

Bunny Yeager was a model whose photographs made Bettie Page and the other pin-up "girls" shine ...
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Guy Gibson of the Dambusters, and his Desert Island Discs

Guy Gibson of the Dambusters, and his Desert Island Discs

In February 1944 Guy Gibson VC appeared on Desert Island Discs with Roy Plomley, just seven months later he died. ...
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‘Nobs & Nosh’ – Photos of Celebrities by Allan Warren from 1974

‘Nobs & Nosh’ – Photos of Celebrities by Allan Warren from 1974

'Nobs & Nosh - Eating with the Beautiful People' features photographs of celebrities and aristocrats accompanied with a favourite recipe and their musings about their relationship with food. Many of the beautiful people, unsurprisingly perhaps, admitted to not eating much at all and often seemed rather bored with the activity. ...
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Violent Innocence: Photographing New York City’s Brooklyn Gangs (1959)

Violent Innocence: Photographing New York City’s Brooklyn Gangs (1959)

In 1959 photographer Bruce Davidson spent several months with NYC gang The Jokers ...
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Doris Day Sings Atomic Rock – An Ode To The Geiger Counter

Doris Day Sings Atomic Rock – An Ode To The Geiger Counter

In 1949 Doris Day hailed the magic of uranium in a Hollywood musical ...
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Arnold Genthe’s Fascinating Photos of Japan In 1908

Arnold Genthe’s Fascinating Photos of Japan In 1908

Two years after his photographic studio burnt down in the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake Arnold Genthe made a six month trip to a rapidly changing Japan. ...
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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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