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Brilliant Kodachrome Photos Of London In October 1977

Brilliant Kodachrome Photos Of London In October 1977

In October 1977, Mats Örn flew in to London from his native Sweden. And he started to take photos... ...
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The 1980 Citroën Karin Reimagines the Car as Futuristic Sci-Fi Masterpiece

The 1980 Citroën Karin Reimagines the Car as Futuristic Sci-Fi Masterpiece

“The modern car,” as sci-fi writer and futurist J.G. Ballard wrote in 1971, “still remains a machine whose identity we can grasp…. The car is probably the last machine whose basic technology and function we can all understand." ...
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“Funny business, a woman’s career” – Miss Bette Davis Sings at Abbey Road Studios

“Funny business, a woman’s career” – Miss Bette Davis Sings at Abbey Road Studios

'As music, it’s dubious; as a memoir, it’s marvelous.' ...
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The Control Panel Archive: The Tactile Beauty of Buttons, Meters, Knobs and Dials

The Control Panel Archive: The Tactile Beauty of Buttons, Meters, Knobs and Dials

The beauty of a well-designed knob ...
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“He Has a Powerful Weapon” – Ephemera From The Man with the Golden Gun

“He Has a Powerful Weapon” – Ephemera From The Man with the Golden Gun

"His eye may be on you or me, Who will he bang? We shall see, oh yeah!" - Lulu ...
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Jenny On The Job: 8 Posters Of An Ideal Woman Emancipated By World War 2

Jenny On The Job: 8 Posters Of An Ideal Woman Emancipated By World War 2

'Jenny on The Job - Steps ahead with Low Heels' ...
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London Retro – Ektachrome Snapshots from the 1960s

London Retro – Ektachrome Snapshots from the 1960s

In 1962 when the first of these photos were taken the photographer was just 13 ...
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Cereal Box Prizes from the 1970s and 1980s

Cereal Box Prizes from the 1970s and 1980s

Back when everyone bought cereal for the free gift ...
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The Enduring Allure of Mid-Century Modernism

The Enduring Allure of Mid-Century Modernism

Mid-century modernism, they say, is timeless. But it’s also very clearly from a certain time and place. An American take on Bauhaus designs and the International style. ...
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Buy Prints Hardwicke Knight – Photographer

Hardwicke Knight – Photographer

Photos Knight wanted to represent the creative and artistic side of his life rather than his professional life as a medical photographer. ...
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The Andy Warhol Photography Archive: 130,000 Pictures of Everything and Everyone

The Andy Warhol Photography Archive: 130,000 Pictures of Everything and Everyone

'A picture means I know where I was every minute, that’s why I take pictures' - Andy Warhol ...
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The Invisible Man in Cinema: From 1930s Classic to 1980s Silliness 

The Invisible Man in Cinema: From 1930s Classic to 1980s Silliness 

Being able to turn invisible is such a compelling idea that it’s been a part of storytelling since the dawn of time.  ...
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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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