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“Nuke the Whales” and 20 More Tacky and Tasteless T-Shirts from the 1970s

“Nuke the Whales” and 20 More Tacky and Tasteless T-Shirts from the 1970s

Yes, there actually was a “Nuke the Whales” T-shirt, but that’s the least problematic tee in this list. ...
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“Revolution is an act of love” – Pictures of Jane Fonda the Activist

“Revolution is an act of love” – Pictures of Jane Fonda the Activist

"Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood." - Jane Fonda ...
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How WWI Propaganda Posters Sold the War to Americans and Helped Invent the Modern Ad Industry

How WWI Propaganda Posters Sold the War to Americans and Helped Invent the Modern Ad Industry

'The manipulators of patriotic opinion made use of the mental clichés and the emotional habits of the public to produce mass reactions against the alleged atrocities, the terror and the tyranny of the enemy' - Edward Bernays ...
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17 New Albums Arriving in Record Stores in the Year 1980

17 New Albums Arriving in Record Stores in the Year 1980

What a year 1980 was for pop ...
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When Tommy Roberts, Johnny Halliday and Sylvia Vartan Brought Hippy Chic To Paris (1967)

When Tommy Roberts, Johnny Halliday and Sylvia Vartan Brought Hippy Chic To Paris (1967)

"By 1967 Haight Ashbury hippie culture had taken off in London. At Kleptomania – my boutique around the corner from Carnaby Street at 10 Kingly Street – it was embraced with gusto" - Tommy Roberts ...
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The Atlantic Wall: The Architecture of Death in Photos

The Atlantic Wall: The Architecture of Death in Photos

"The war will be won or lost on the beaches. We'll have only one chance to stop the enemy and that's while he's in the water ... struggling to get ashore ... everything we have must be on the coast ... the first twenty-four hours of the invasion will be decisive... for the Allies, as well as Germany, it will be the longest day" - Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, German Army ...
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World War 1 In Color: Canada’s War

World War 1 In Color: Canada’s War

Coloring the old brings the past to life ...
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“Stuff the Jubilee” – The Gordon Highlanders on Patrol in Belfast in 1977/78

“Stuff the Jubilee” – The Gordon Highlanders on Patrol in Belfast in 1977/78

At the time of the Queen's Silver Jubilee the Gordon Highlanders were based at Palace Barracks, Holywood near Belfast. ...
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Danny Lyon: New Mexico and Mexico Road Trip – 1970s

Danny Lyon: New Mexico and Mexico Road Trip – 1970s

'To be in some river bottom somewhere, or in a desert, or in mountains, or in some hut in Mexico... and rest and be kind, and do nothing else...' - Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums ...
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Backstage With Divine in The Neon Woman – New York 1978

Backstage With Divine in The Neon Woman – New York 1978

'The scene is backstage at a tacky strip joint, the Neon Woman, herself, where the characters are undressing for work...' ...
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Igor Mukhin’s Photographs Capture the Underground Rock Scene in Moscow and Leningrad at the Tail End of the Soviet Union

Igor Mukhin’s Photographs Capture the Underground Rock Scene in Moscow and Leningrad at the Tail End of the Soviet Union

"I felt that the time of ‘change’ had come, and I needed to go and shoot” - Igor Mukhin ...
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30 Photos Of New York City In 1978

30 Photos Of New York City In 1978

Manel Armengol was in New York in 1978. His photos transport us back in time to a city in decay ...
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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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    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Part of the Documerica project - a program sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to "photographically document subjects of environmental concern" in the United States from about 1972 to 1977. ...
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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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    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroids‎ (1979 - 1984) show us thoughtful and dreamy visions of his native Russia, featuring his family, his dog, his home, his garden, views from trips to Italy and a 'selfie'. Tarkovsky (4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) is the revered film director of whom Ingmar Bergman said, “Tarkovsky ...
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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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    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    There is a moment in every one of those tacky beauty pageants when the sweaty, middle-aged host asks each young swimsuit-clad contestant "If there was one thing you could do what would it be?" The answers are always the same: "I would bring about world peace." It's a nice thought--though ...
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