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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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19th Century Student Drag Queens

19th Century Student Drag Queens

'As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking' - Virginia Woolf (Orlando) ...
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Some of the Earliest Photographic Views of Edinburgh, 1843-44

Some of the Earliest Photographic Views of Edinburgh, 1843-44

Some of the earliest views of the city and some of the most beautifully preserved calotype cityscapes from the period ...
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Men Behaving Badly on Saucy Vintage Postcards

Men Behaving Badly on Saucy Vintage Postcards

For some reason, in the early decades of the 20th century it was a "thing" to send sleazy cartoon postcards while on vacation.   Looking through postcards from the 1930s-1950s, you'll find not as many photographs of tourist locations as you will bawdy cartoons. ...
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Photos Of Johnny Cash And June Carter At Folsom Prison

Photos Of Johnny Cash And June Carter At Folsom Prison

I shot a man in Reno Just to watch him die When I hear that whistle blowin' I hang my head and cry ...
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Child Portrait Day at the South Bay Camera Club in Redondo Beach, California (1950s)

Child Portrait Day at the South Bay Camera Club in Redondo Beach, California (1950s)

'Photographs turn the present into past, make contingency into destiny. Whatever their degree of “realism,” all photographs embody a “romantic” relation to reality' - Susan Sontag ...
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In 1978 Kate Bush Sold Seiko Watches in Japan

In 1978 Kate Bush Sold Seiko Watches in Japan

Japan is where Western celebrities go to make ads no one in their home market will see ...
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15 Vintage Found Photographs of Creepy Dolls

15 Vintage Found Photographs of Creepy Dolls

'Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions' - Stephen King, Desperation ...
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Rare 1967 Photos of a 20-Year-Old David Bowie in Hats, Mime Makeup, and Wooly Sweaters Before the Release of His Self-Titled Debut Album

Rare 1967 Photos of a 20-Year-Old David Bowie in Hats, Mime Makeup, and Wooly Sweaters Before the Release of His Self-Titled Debut Album

“We didn’t realize that he’d been trying to be successful for 10 years.” - Jarvis Cocker on David Bowie ...
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The 50th Anniversary of the Movie ‘Performance’

The 50th Anniversary of the Movie ‘Performance’

"I'll tell you this: the only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness. Right? Am I right? You with me?" - Turner ...
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Canary Wharf and the Isle of Dogs In the 1980s – Before the Big Money Rolled In

Canary Wharf and the Isle of Dogs In the 1980s – Before the Big Money Rolled In

"Our country's not an island any more. This is the decade in which London will become Europe's capital, having cleared away the out-dated. We've got mile after mile or acre after acre of land for our future prosperity. No other city in the world has got, right at its centre, such an opportunity for profitable progress" - Harold Shand, The Long Good Friday (1981) ...
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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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