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Cocktails & Striptease: Vintage Burlesque Show Ads

Cocktails & Striptease: Vintage Burlesque Show Ads

In a time before home video, almost every city in the US had its local ...
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Murders In Miniature: Frances Glessner Lee’s Nutshell Studies Of Unexplained Death

Murders In Miniature: Frances Glessner Lee’s Nutshell Studies Of Unexplained Death

"There is no detective in England equal to a lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands" — Agatha Christie (Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple #1)) ...
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Think Pink! Snapshots On The Path To Millennial Pink

Think Pink! Snapshots On The Path To Millennial Pink

"I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink" - Audrey Hepburn ...
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Print at SHOWStudio: The Abiding Allure of Inspirational and Off-The-Map Magazines

Print at SHOWStudio: The Abiding Allure of Inspirational and Off-The-Map Magazines

'This is not a magazine. This is not a conspiracy to force opinion into the subconscious of stylish young people. A synthetic leisure culture is developing – plastic people forced fed on canned entertainment and designer food. Are you ready to be Dazed & Confused? Get high on oxygen? This is urban ideas for creative people. Creative people who want to read something else.' - Dazed & Confused, Issue 1 1991 ...
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The Brady Bunch Volcano Episode: TV’s Greatest Allegory for Sexual Awakening

The Brady Bunch Volcano Episode: TV’s Greatest Allegory for Sexual Awakening

I joined the science club at school, and I'm building a volcano. When I'm finished, ...
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Vintage Vinyl Hall of Shame: More Awful Album Covers

Vintage Vinyl Hall of Shame: More Awful Album Covers

I've done many an article on bad album covers over the past several years; you ...
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Wakey, Wakey! Pontins Holiday Camps in 1984

Wakey, Wakey! Pontins Holiday Camps in 1984

“All the best people come to Pontins.” ...
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The Grateful Dead Levitate Egypt’s Pyramids Under A Lunar Eclipse (1978)

The Grateful Dead Levitate Egypt’s Pyramids Under A Lunar Eclipse (1978)

"I got to a point where the head of the Sphinx was lined up with the top of the Great Pyramid, all lit up. All of a sudden, I went to this timeless place. The sounds from the stage - they could have been from any time. It was as if I went into eternity." - Bob Weir ...
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Faces At The Tyco Toy Factory In 1976 Hong Kong

Faces At The Tyco Toy Factory In 1976 Hong Kong

  Tyco Toys was incorporated as Mantua Metal Products in Woodbury Heights, New Jersey, the metalworks ...
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Playboy in the Yearbook: Texas Tech’s Bunny Pages (1959-1981)

Playboy in the Yearbook: Texas Tech’s Bunny Pages (1959-1981)

In 1959, the Texas Tech University yearbook, La Ventana, began the tradition of having a Playboy Magazine feature complete with female students as Playmates and even a full color centerfold... ...
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Kazuko and Wayne: A Japanese-American Romance Taken Between Dec 1955 and January 1957

Kazuko and Wayne: A Japanese-American Romance Taken Between Dec 1955 and January 1957

"I'm wondering if without our memories, there's nothing for it but for our love to fade and die" — Kazuo Ishiguro ...
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‘A Sardonic Fairytale’: Derek Boshier’s 16 Situations (1971)

‘A Sardonic Fairytale’: Derek Boshier’s 16 Situations (1971)

The contemplative and poised exhibition Land Marks: Structures For A Poetic Universe ran until June ...
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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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