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‘The Way We Were’ – Essex Friends During the Summer of 1972

‘The Way We Were’ – Essex Friends During the Summer of 1972

These photos by Alan Richardson using a simple Agfa 100 Sensor camera. He remembers the time: ...
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Mildly Disturbing Fun with Frankfurters: Kids Gobbling Hot Dogs in Vintage Advertising

Mildly Disturbing Fun with Frankfurters: Kids Gobbling Hot Dogs in Vintage Advertising

I can’t help it. The image of a mid-century kid eagerly tasting a glistening hot dog is just funny to me.  I understand it’s juvenile and jaded, but I hope we are all still at a point where it’s okay to laugh (or at least quietly chuckle) at these old advertisements. ...
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Inside Andy Warhol’s Silver Factory

Inside Andy Warhol’s Silver Factory

“Silver was the future, it was spacy – the astronauts wore silver suits… And maybe more than anything, silver was narcissism" ...
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New York City in all its Neon-Lit Glory, 1969 – 1971

New York City in all its Neon-Lit Glory, 1969 – 1971

These brilliant photos of NYC were taken by Hans Joachim Jacobi using a Exakta Varex IIa, an East-German camera, on the way to and from Halifax in Nova Scotia to visit relatives. ...
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‘Elswick Kids’ –  Extraordinary Photos by the Late Tish Murtha

‘Elswick Kids’ – Extraordinary Photos by the Late Tish Murtha

Her images capture the joy and freedom of childhood at a time when it was normal to play out in the street, in a way that has been largely lost today. ...
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Education Prophesies: How We Envisioned the Classroom of the Future

Education Prophesies: How We Envisioned the Classroom of the Future

If you had asked anyone in the 1950s what the classrooms of 2018 would look like, they’d have described a space-age classroom with all sorts of high-tech gadgetry.  The reality is, our classrooms haven’t changed much.  In some cases the No.2 pencil has been exchanged for an iPad, and the chalkboard for a dry-erase or SMART board – but it’s still the same old story. ...
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David Lynch Creates An Existential Crisis With Rabbits, His Peculiar Digital Sitcom

David Lynch Creates An Existential Crisis With Rabbits, His Peculiar Digital Sitcom

"In a nameless city deluged by a continuous rain... three rabbits live with a fearful mystery" ...
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Incredible Photos of Brutalist Architecture in the Former Yugoslavia From 1948-1980

Incredible Photos of Brutalist Architecture in the Former Yugoslavia From 1948-1980

  Once a target of critical abuse—its name the reclamation of an insult—Brutalism is back, ...
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A Brilliant Rejection Letter From Gregory Peck

A Brilliant Rejection Letter From Gregory Peck

"Thank you for sending your script to me. There is a lot of very good writing in it, but playing a senior citizen in a nursing home is not for me. Don't want to do it. Too vain." ...
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LEGO Marketing Materials From the 1960s-1980s Encouraged Boys and Girls to Build Together

LEGO Marketing Materials From the 1960s-1980s Encouraged Boys and Girls to Build Together

Much has been made over the years of a 1981 LEGO ad, and others like it, featuring a beaming young red-headed girl holding up her LEGO creation over the caption “What it is is beautiful.” ...
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The Exploitative New English Library Covers from the 1960s and 70s

The Exploitative New English Library Covers from the 1960s and 70s

The New English Library (NEL) initially concentrated on fantasy, science fiction and suspense novels it soon realised that to differentiate from other publishers it needed to attract and engage with a growing teenage readership. NEL closely followed popular trends and fashions and got hack writers to write exploitative novels about skinheads, Hells Angels and groupies. ...
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Kevin Cummins’ Iconic Photos of Joy Division and New Order

Kevin Cummins’ Iconic Photos of Joy Division and New Order

Some shots you don’t think ‘Right, I’ve just done a defining image.’ It becomes that, because it’s the picture that’s associated with the artist at the moment.” ...
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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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