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From Edinburgh to Glasgow in 1961

From Edinburgh to Glasgow in 1961

“We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation” - Voltaire ...
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‘Pile it High, Sell it Low’: The Saga of the Supermarket

‘Pile it High, Sell it Low’: The Saga of the Supermarket

In the US, there is a gigantic supermarket seemingly everywhere you look.  A Wal-Mart Super-Center ...
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Sinister Vintage Kodachrome Snapshots Of The British at Play

Sinister Vintage Kodachrome Snapshots Of The British at Play

Weird, sinister and fun snapshots of mid-Century Britons doing stuff! ...
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Watch M.C. Escher Make His Impossible Mathematical Art In This 1971 Film

Watch M.C. Escher Make His Impossible Mathematical Art In This 1971 Film

'Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check' - MC Escher ...
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Programmed for Lameness: Awful Comic Book Covers Featuring Robots

Programmed for Lameness: Awful Comic Book Covers Featuring Robots

What exactly does this Beverly Hillbillies robot intend to do with Granny once he’s taken her away? Let's try to find out... ...
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Gorgeous Art Nouveau Posters from La Belle Epoque

Gorgeous Art Nouveau Posters from La Belle Epoque

The explosion of creative activity in Europe and the U.S. from the end of the ...
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Der Orchideengarten: The World’s First Fantasy Magazine

Der Orchideengarten: The World’s First Fantasy Magazine

'I choose weird stories because they suit my inclination best—one of my strongest and most persistent wishes being to achieve, momentarily, the illusion of some strange suspension or violation of the galling limitations of time, space, and natural law which for ever imprison us and frustrate our curiosity about the infinite cosmic spaces beyond the radius of our sight and analysis' - H.P.Lovercraft ...
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‘Greetings from Nowhere’: 10 Vintage Postcards from Peculiar Lands of Disenchantment

‘Greetings from Nowhere’: 10 Vintage Postcards from Peculiar Lands of Disenchantment

Journey with us to the “Covered Bridge Capital of the World” and other old time holiday destinations ...
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Remembering the Scala Cinema: London’s All-Night ‘Country Club for Lunatics’

Remembering the Scala Cinema: London’s All-Night ‘Country Club for Lunatics’

‘The Scala had magic. It was like joining a very secret club, like a biker gang or something…' - John Waters ...
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‘Shoot The Curator’: John Frankland on Damien Hirst The Complete Spot Paintings 1986 – 2011

‘Shoot The Curator’: John Frankland on Damien Hirst The Complete Spot Paintings 1986 – 2011

'It’s quantity over quality, the wrong kind of banality' - John Frankland ...
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“A Photograph is a Secret About a Secret”: Diane Arbus’ New York Park Portraits

“A Photograph is a Secret About a Secret”: Diane Arbus’ New York Park Portraits

“One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed” - Diane Arbus ...
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The Garter Toss: Vintage Photographs of a Wedding Tradition

The Garter Toss: Vintage Photographs of a Wedding Tradition

  The origin of the tradition of the wedding garter toss began in the Dark ...
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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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