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David Hurn’s Arizona Trips (1979 – 2001)

David Hurn’s Arizona Trips (1979 – 2001)

"Photography has all sorts of genres... but one of the things that I think it does better than anything else is to record life as it is" - David Hurn ...
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‘A Proper Pea-Souper’ – The Dreadful London Smog of 1952

‘A Proper Pea-Souper’ – The Dreadful London Smog of 1952

Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city ...
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Jiji and Kinako: A Cat Brought Joy To My Sick And Grumpy Grandpa

Jiji and Kinako: A Cat Brought Joy To My Sick And Grumpy Grandpa

“You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone” ― William S. Burroughs, Last Words: The Final Journals ...
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‘The Wrong Place at the Wrong Time’ – The Sad Tale of Actress Kay Kendall

‘The Wrong Place at the Wrong Time’ – The Sad Tale of Actress Kay Kendall

"As they say about crime victims, Kay Kendall was in the wrong place at the wrong time. In her case, the crime was a waste of talent." ...
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Crossing The Equator: When Shellbacks Became Pollywogs Aboard The USS Princeton (1957)

Crossing The Equator: When Shellbacks Became Pollywogs Aboard The USS Princeton (1957)

Sailors who have already crossed the Equator (Shellbacks) enacted King Neptune's "Royal Order of the Deep" on those who had not (Pollywogs) ...
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Before Wal-Mart Conquered America: Local Mom & Pop Ads from the 1970s

Before Wal-Mart Conquered America: Local Mom & Pop Ads from the 1970s

In 1970, every town in the US had its Main Street, complete with locally owned ...
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Atari to Nintendo: Home Electronic Games (1975-1986)

Atari to Nintendo: Home Electronic Games (1975-1986)

Paging through catalogs from Sears, Montgomery Ward, and JC Penney, let's follow the rise, fall ...
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Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s Photos Of Austria – March 1st 1938

Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s Photos Of Austria – March 1st 1938

“Our life is like a journey…" - Annemarie Schwarzenbach ...
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Edvard Munch’s Experimental Selfies

Edvard Munch’s Experimental Selfies

“Illness, madness, and death were the black angels that kept watch over my cradle and accompanied me all my life” - Edvard Munch ...
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Hollywood In Kodachrome: People Of LA 1979-1982

Hollywood In Kodachrome: People Of LA 1979-1982

"Look at that mountain - Look at those trees - Look at that bum over there, man - He's down on his knees - Look at these women - There ain't nothing like 'em nowhere" - Randy Neman, I Love LA ...
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What’s Playing at the Local Cineplex? A Look at 1980s Newspaper Movie Ads

What’s Playing at the Local Cineplex? A Look at 1980s Newspaper Movie Ads

  If you want to demonstrate how times have changed for movies, just show them ...
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A Night Out At The Too Far East Club, Seoul, South Korea 1956

A Night Out At The Too Far East Club, Seoul, South Korea 1956

  A set of photos taken by Pvt. Jack Tobin at a USO-type show on ...
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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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