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Buy Prints Curtis Moffat: Bright Young Things;  Experimental Photography and Design, 1923-1935

Curtis Moffat: Bright Young Things; Experimental Photography and Design, 1923-1935

"A gentle, quiet, easy-going man with velvet eyes and enormous charm, Curtis Moffat was the most Europeanised of Americans. He seemed to be only 'at home' in the quietness of his book-filled rooms. But appearances are deceptive; in fact he was the centre of enormous creative activity. " Cecil Beaton ...
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Fantastic Portraits of Pop Stars Posing With Their Younger Selves

Fantastic Portraits of Pop Stars Posing With Their Younger Selves

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit” - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray ...
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Great Portraits of Ireland and The Irish At The Turn of The 19th Century

Great Portraits of Ireland and The Irish At The Turn of The 19th Century

"There is a time when individuals can bear to be rallied for their past follies and absurdities, after they have acquired new habits and a new consciousness. Nations, as well as individuals, gradually lose attachment to their identity, and the present generation is amused, rather than offended, by the ridicule that is thrown upon its ancestors" - Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent ...
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The Extraordinary Photos of German Photographer August Sander

The Extraordinary Photos of German Photographer August Sander

In the early 1920s Sander began People of the 20th Century – one of the most ambitious undertakings in the history of photography, the project occupied Sander for some 40 years, from the early 1920s until his death, during which he took portraits of hundreds of German citizens and then categorised them by social type and occupation. ...
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Jonathan Higbee’s Street Photography Captures New York’s Dynamism And Wit

Jonathan Higbee’s Street Photography Captures New York’s Dynamism And Wit

A 21st Century New York moment ...
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Matchbloc: Gorgeous East European Matchboxes

Matchbloc: Gorgeous East European Matchboxes

“After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there was some tobacco in it, and that was something more. Then he felt for matches and he could not find any at all, and that shattered his hopes completely” - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit ...
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Wonderful Photos Backstage at a Frances McLaughlin-Gill Glamour Magazine Shoot in 1952

Wonderful Photos Backstage at a Frances McLaughlin-Gill Glamour Magazine Shoot in 1952

"I preferred to cast models who could act, and my favourites all had the ability to improvise within a situation that I had created." ...
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The Lesbian Gateways Club on the King’s Road and the Killing of Sister George

The Lesbian Gateways Club on the King’s Road and the Killing of Sister George

Between the 9th and 16th of June in 1968 the Gateways club became internationally famous when it appeared as a backdrop to some scenes filmed for The Killing Of Sister George, a movie starring Beryl Reid, Coral Browne and Susannah York. ...
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My Father’s Collection of Cheese Labels from the 1940s and 50s

My Father’s Collection of Cheese Labels from the 1940s and 50s

"This is my father's collection of cheese labels from the 1940s and 50s" - Julian Tysoe ...
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Tyne Pride and Fall: Chris Killip’s Photographs Of Britain’s Vanished Industrial Heartlands

Tyne Pride and Fall: Chris Killip’s Photographs Of Britain’s Vanished Industrial Heartlands

"Even then I had a sense that all this was not going to last, though I had no idea how soon it would all be gone" - Chris Killip ...
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The Life of Prince Omar Ibn Said : The Muslim Slave’s Autobiography (1831)

The Life of Prince Omar Ibn Said : The Muslim Slave’s Autobiography (1831)

"His whole person and gait bear marks of considerable refinement” ...
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Panoramic Photographs by Peter Li Celebrate the Symmetry of Churches

Panoramic Photographs by Peter Li Celebrate the Symmetry of Churches

"Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?" - William Blake ...
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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 Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    "I get a thrill when they’re kneeling there, between my knees and they’re looking up at me. And I want them to call me Mr Hill, not Benny. ‘Is that all right for you, Mr Hill?’ That’s lovely, that is, I really like that,” I asked him why and he said, “Well, it’s respectful...”’ - Benny Hill ...
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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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