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“The World is Not Beautiful – But It’s There” – Brilliant Portraits by John Myers

“The World is Not Beautiful – But It’s There” – Brilliant Portraits by John Myers

John Myer’s subjects were the ordinary, often underappreciated residents of the West Midlands town where he lived. ...
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I Like A Bit of A Cavort: Sigue Sigue Sputnik Perform Success on Brazilian TV

I Like A Bit of A Cavort: Sigue Sigue Sputnik Perform Success on Brazilian TV

"A neon space gang from another planet" - Tony James. " “They looked great; they were wonderful in print. Their mistake was making a record” - Malcolm McLaren ...
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Before Their Very Eyes: When Norma Sykes Became ‘Sabrina’

Before Their Very Eyes: When Norma Sykes Became ‘Sabrina’

"I soon realised the effect my figure had on people. They would frequently stop and stare at me in the street, especially if I was wearing a sweater" - Sabrina’ ...
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Michelangelo’s Brilliantly Drawn 16th-Century Grocery List

Michelangelo’s Brilliantly Drawn 16th-Century Grocery List

“The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis” - Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose ...
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Welcome to Fear City: A Survival Guide For Visitors to New York City (1975)

Welcome to Fear City: A Survival Guide For Visitors to New York City (1975)

Inside was a list of nine “guidelines” that might allow you to get out of the city alive, and with your personal property intact. ...
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Photographs of The Lower East Side During the 1970s

Photographs of The Lower East Side During the 1970s

New York City in the 1970s was tough but if you took the trouble to look for them, signs of joy were everywhere ...
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When Joe Strummer Ran The Paris Marathon After 10 Pints Of Beer

When Joe Strummer Ran The Paris Marathon After 10 Pints Of Beer

"I didn’t fuckin’ train. Not once. Just turned up and did it" - Joe Stummer ...
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Stunning Pictures of London’s West End by Bob Hyde c.1965

Stunning Pictures of London’s West End by Bob Hyde c.1965

Pictures taken on a walk up Charing Cross Road from Piccadilly Circus to Cambridge Circus ...
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Remembering Rose Finn-Kelcey (1945-2014)

Remembering Rose Finn-Kelcey (1945-2014)

“I work in the belief – or dare – that I can continue to reinvent myself and remain a perennial beginner" - Rose Finn-Kelcey ...
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61 Sensational Soviet Space Posters

61 Sensational Soviet Space Posters

In the 1950s and 1960s the Soviet Union assured the great unwashed that ploughing fortunes into the space race was good for them ...
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Duelling With Wax Bullets in New York (1909)

Duelling With Wax Bullets in New York (1909)

In 1909 wax bullets were used in duals at the New York Athletic Club and Carnegie Hall ...
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Looking For Orson Welles’ Noses

Looking For Orson Welles’ Noses

“When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends” – Orson Welles ...
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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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