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Impressionism As Street Photography: George Hendrik Breitner’s Streets of Amsterdam

Impressionism As Street Photography: George Hendrik Breitner’s Streets of Amsterdam

"The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king" — Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles ...
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19th Century Illustrations for the Surgical Removal of Unwanted Parts of the Human Body

19th Century Illustrations for the Surgical Removal of Unwanted Parts of the Human Body

"I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time" - Henri Matisse ...
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Freckles Removal Between the Wars

Freckles Removal Between the Wars

"Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt" - Dorothy Parker (The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker) ...
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Cut It Out: The Astounding Story Behind Barney Bubbles’ Hawkwind Galactic Tarot Cards

Cut It Out: The Astounding Story Behind Barney Bubbles’ Hawkwind Galactic Tarot Cards

In November 1971, design legend Barney Bubbles produced a typically audacious promotional item for Hawkwind’s recently released album X In Search Of Space ...
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Vivian Maier in Color: The Ektachrome Slides

Vivian Maier in Color: The Ektachrome Slides

"She didn’t have to worry about either the orthodoxy or the approval of her peers” ...
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Ozzy Osbourne and Me: Shooting A Rock God in the 1980s

Ozzy Osbourne and Me: Shooting A Rock God in the 1980s

My early memories with Ozzy Osbourne in celebration of his 70th Birthday ...
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The Extraordinary Album Art by Mozelle Thompson

The Extraordinary Album Art by Mozelle Thompson

"Mozelle Thompson was the only prolific African American artist to illustrate album covers. He was a pioneer in his industry, working alongside the first-generation artists who contributed to the history of album cover art within the first 15 years of its existence." - J. Malls ...
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Small Town Noir – Twenty-One ’30s and ’40s Mugshots from New Castle, Pennsylvania

Small Town Noir – Twenty-One ’30s and ’40s Mugshots from New Castle, Pennsylvania

“These pictures are a precious record of people who would otherwise have been forgotten, and their stories give us a glimpse of a fascinating alternative history of America’s ‘greatest generation’.” Diarmid Mogg ...
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New York in Motion: Incredible Photographs of The City That Never Sleeps (1880s)

New York in Motion: Incredible Photographs of The City That Never Sleeps (1880s)

When not working as a chemist and at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Science's departments of Mineralogy and Astronomy, Wallace G. Levison was taking photographs. Advances in technology allowed Levison to capture his native New York in motion. ...
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‘Disgraceful Orgies’, ‘Unholy Rites’ and the Death of Billie Carleton 100 Years Ago

‘Disgraceful Orgies’, ‘Unholy Rites’ and the Death of Billie Carleton 100 Years Ago

One hundred years ago and two weeks after the end of World War One, Billie Carleton, the youngest leading lady in the West End, died of a drug overdose. The ramifications of which lasted for decades... ...
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Gorgeous Book Design and Binding: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Other Delights

Gorgeous Book Design and Binding: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Other Delights

'The strength of the frontiers, which had always consisted in arms rather than fortifications, was insensibly undermined; and the fairest provinces were left exposed to the rapaciousness or ambition of the barbarians, who soon discovered the decline of the Roman empire' ...
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More Found Wedding Portraits From 1960s New York (Part 2)

More Found Wedding Portraits From 1960s New York (Part 2)

Here's Part 2 of our look at New York wedding photos from a professional photographer working in the 1960s. The lighting, framing and composition suggest the photographer was no natural picture taker. As ever the question remains: is that you? Now let’s imagine the stories behind the photos… ...
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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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