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A Marvellous Collection of Photos of Dame Lesley Lawson aka Twiggy

A Marvellous Collection of Photos of Dame Lesley Lawson aka Twiggy

"I looked through my camera and this face looked back at me and I just just went 'wow'. It was the effect of her looking back at me, I can't find the adjective to describe it. I think it was the eyes, she had such presence. She was gawky but she had a sort of elegance." Barry Lategan ...
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The Day Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde Visited Lords in 1964

The Day Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde Visited Lords in 1964

Almost certainly the most exciting thing that happened at the home of cricket in 1966 was Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde turning up on 29th September to film a scene from John Schlesinger’s Swinging London satire Darling. ...
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A Wonderful and Extraordinary Collection of Old Hotel ‘Do Not Disturb’ Signs

A Wonderful and Extraordinary Collection of Old Hotel ‘Do Not Disturb’ Signs

“The first widespread use was probably in the beginning of the 20th century, mostly in the U.S., in some of the more prestigious hotels where discretion was the better part of valour,” says Edoardo. “DND signs have also been known for covering up crimes, or at least, delaying the discovery..." ...
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The Fashionable and the Fast – Skiing Photographs by Slim Aarons

The Fashionable and the Fast – Skiing Photographs by Slim Aarons

"I don't do fashion, I take photos of people in their own clothes and that becomes fashion." ...
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Raping Levitan: Inside The Jewish Department Store Where Nazis In Paris Bought Stolen Goods

Raping Levitan: Inside The Jewish Department Store Where Nazis In Paris Bought Stolen Goods

The Nazis were thieves. Having rounded up the Jews of Paris and marked them for murder, the Germans and their French lickspittles enacted Möbel Aktion, emptying homes once vacated by Jews and selling the spoils. ...
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“Consumate Actress – Hampered by Beauty” – Glorious Pictures of Vivien Leigh

“Consumate Actress – Hampered by Beauty” – Glorious Pictures of Vivien Leigh

"People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can’t possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap, if you really want to look like the part you’re playing, which isn’t necessarily like you." ...
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London Waterloo Station in Pictures

London Waterloo Station in Pictures

We got to Waterloo at eleven, and asked where the eleven-five started from. Of course nobody knew; nobody at Waterloo ever does know where a train is going to start from, or where a train when it does start is going to, or anything about it. - Three Men in a Boat' ...
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A Merry Mix of Christmas Song Performances from the 1960s-80s

A Merry Mix of Christmas Song Performances from the 1960s-80s

Here is an eclectic hodgepodge of Christmas song performances from decades pasts ranging from Dutch ...
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Listen To Bob Dylan Reading Twas The Night Before Christmas (2006)

Listen To Bob Dylan Reading Twas The Night Before Christmas (2006)

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. ...
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Roadside America: A Look at Mid-Century Diners

Roadside America: A Look at Mid-Century Diners

Care for some "Shoo-Fly Pies"?  And while you're there, maybe grab some "Amish Stuff"..... you won't find these items at McDonald's.  Once upon a time, American roads were dotted with individually owned diners offering a wonderful diversity of eating choices - nearly always proclaiming the food is "baked on premises". ...
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Glorious Photos and Posters of the Great French Entertainer Mistinguett

Glorious Photos and Posters of the Great French Entertainer Mistinguett

Her voice, slightly off-key, was that of the Parisian street hawkers—the husky, trailing voice of the Paris people. She was of the animal race that owes nothing to intellectualism. She incarnated herself. She flattered a French patriotism that was not shameful. It is normal now that she should crumble, like the other caryatids of that great and marvellous epoch that was ours. ...
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‘Reconstructions’ – Extraordinary Photographs and Poems of ‘the Troubles’

‘Reconstructions’ – Extraordinary Photographs and Poems of ‘the Troubles’

World-renowned Northern Irish photographer, Bobbie Hanvey, captured some of The Troubles' most defining and devastating moments. In 'Reconstructions - The Troubles in Photographs and Words', these photographs take on even greater resonance when set in context by Bobbie's eldest son, singer-songwriter and poet, Steafán Hanvey. ...
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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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