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Billy Apple’s Appropriation And David Hockney’s Lady Clairol Hair

Billy Apple’s Appropriation And David Hockney’s Lady Clairol Hair

"I didn't want to spend 10 years learning how to mould a peeled banana. There were people around who were fantastic at doing it ... It has always been like that: the idea is paramount" - Billy Apple ...
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“Don’t Let Them Call You Skinny!” – Vintage Weight Gain Advertising for Women

“Don’t Let Them Call You Skinny!” – Vintage Weight Gain Advertising for Women

Perusing through women's interest magazines from the 1950s-1970s, you will often find advertisements for women to put weight on.  ...
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The Shining Behind The Scenes: Watch Jack Nicholson Shocking Himself Into Character

The Shining Behind The Scenes: Watch Jack Nicholson Shocking Himself Into Character

    In 1980 movie goers got to see The Shining, Stanley Kubrick and Diane Johnson's gripping ...
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Desktop Dining: Photographer Brian Finke Pictures The Joy Of Eating In The Office

Desktop Dining: Photographer Brian Finke Pictures The Joy Of Eating In The Office

'Appetite that comes from hunger. It makes no fuss over the food that satisfies it. If it is great enough, a piece of raw meat will appease it as easily as a roasted pheasant or woodcock' - Alexandre Dumas ...
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Let It Rock Magazine and Barney Bubbles

Let It Rock Magazine and Barney Bubbles

Let It Rock was a monthly British music magazine that ran from October 1972 and December 1975 (35 issues) ...
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Fascinating Photos of Chicago’s Tri-Taylor Neighborhood from 1971

Fascinating Photos of Chicago’s Tri-Taylor Neighborhood from 1971

"He told me many times that he got most of the pictures because he managed to talk a local gang leader into walking him around" ...
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Debbie Harry : The Punk Centerfold Photos (1976)

Debbie Harry : The Punk Centerfold Photos (1976)

"She was constantly asked: ‘How does it feel to be a sex symbol?’” - Chris Stein ...
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A European’s Views of New York In the 1970s

A European’s Views of New York In the 1970s

'The streets sagged and steamed with a subterranean fury. The fire escapes rattled like mad monkey cages' - AA Gill ...
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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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    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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