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Sun Ra Gigs At A Mental Hospital – Therapy Patient Speaks For The First Time

Sun Ra Gigs At A Mental Hospital – Therapy Patient Speaks For The First Time

In the late 1950s, Sun Ra's manager Alton Abraham booked his client to perform at a Chicago mental hospital - playing for a "therapy-through-music group" that “included catatonics and severe schizophrenics". ...
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Vivian Maier: Lost Photographs Of 1950s New York

Vivian Maier: Lost Photographs Of 1950s New York

Found after her death, Vivian Maier’s photographs capture New York City in motion ...
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Stanley Kubrick Lists His Top 10 Films

Stanley Kubrick Lists His Top 10 Films

In 1963 Stanley Kubrick made his first and only list of favorite movies ...
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52 Colorful, Fun and Disturbing Victorian Trade Cards

52 Colorful, Fun and Disturbing Victorian Trade Cards

Popularized after the US Civil War by businesses, colored Victorian Trade Cards allow us to look at popular culture and society in the late 1800s ...
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Photos of a Lost Brighton from 1972-1974

Photos of a Lost Brighton from 1972-1974

Pictures of the popular seaside resort taken by Charlie Verrall ...
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How The Face Magazine Cultured A Generation

How The Face Magazine Cultured A Generation

Paul Gorman's Story of the Face: The Magazine That Changed Culture ...
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25 Vintage Feminine Hygiene Ads That Offered Freedom

25 Vintage Feminine Hygiene Ads That Offered Freedom

In the 1970s woman were told 'Yes, You Can!' ...
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Linda Brown: Brown v. Board Of Education Hero, Dies

Linda Brown: Brown v. Board Of Education Hero, Dies

In 1951, Linda Brown was banned from attending the all-white Sumner Elementary School close to ...
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16 Vintage Snapshots Of Funny And Creepy Easter Bunnies

16 Vintage Snapshots Of Funny And Creepy Easter Bunnies

Robert E. Jackson curates a great gallery of unsettling Easter Rabbits ...
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“Never apologize, never explain!” Pictures of Marianne Faithfull

“Never apologize, never explain!” Pictures of Marianne Faithfull

'I am a Fabulous Beast, and as such, I should only be glimpsed very rarely, through the forest, running away for dear life.' - Marianne Faithfull ...
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Diane Arbus: A Box of Ten Photographs

Diane Arbus: A Box of Ten Photographs

The Diane Arbus portfolio that cemented photography's art status (1969-1973) ...
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The Anarchy Tour of 1976

The Anarchy Tour of 1976

Ray Stevenson's Extraordinary Photos of the Clash and the Sex Pistols... ...
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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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