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Richmond’s Magical Funfairs – 1980s

Richmond’s Magical Funfairs – 1980s

I took the photos at two funfairs in Richmond upon Thames over 30 years ago ...
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Refna Revival: Elizabeth Hamey’s Adventure In Art, Design And Fashion In The 60s and 70s

Refna Revival: Elizabeth Hamey’s Adventure In Art, Design And Fashion In The 60s and 70s

Exciting news: Elizabeth Hamey, who signs her work ‘Refna’, has granted me access to her ...
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Sax Appeal: 48 Sexy Saxophone Album Covers

Sax Appeal: 48 Sexy Saxophone Album Covers

How to entice an early 1960s guy in 2-tone wingtips and argyle sweater-vest to buy ...
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The World’s First Plastic Classroom (1974)

The World’s First Plastic Classroom (1974)

  The principle of industrialised building for schools had almost become a doctrine under the ...
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Roller Girls: Disco-Era Magazine Cover Girls on Skates

Roller Girls: Disco-Era Magazine Cover Girls on Skates

To say they got a bit carried away with roller skating in the 1970s would ...
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Last Rides: Photographs of Where Stars Died In Car Crashes

Last Rides: Photographs of Where Stars Died In Car Crashes

A morbid fascination follows dead stars. Christophe Rihet has photographed the roads where famous people died ...
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Blurred By Movement: Kenneth Garland’s Furnishing Fabrics And Wallpaper (1961, 1964)

Blurred By Movement: Kenneth Garland’s Furnishing Fabrics And Wallpaper (1961, 1964)

  'Furnishing Fabrics' is a series of 1961 images by Kenneth Garland (born Southampton, England ...
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Dear Wilhelm and Family! A German Writes In Praise Of Hitler And Anti-Semitism (1936)

Dear Wilhelm and Family! A German Writes In Praise Of Hitler And Anti-Semitism (1936)

  On January 6, 1936, Ernst Ries from Cologne, Germany, wrote to his cousin Wilhelm in ...
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The Rise And Fall Of Tower Records

The Rise And Fall Of Tower Records

Listening to music is a deeply personal experience. Some songs will always make certain people ...
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Smile and Say “Sleaze”: Sex Sells in Vintage Camera Advertising

Smile and Say “Sleaze”: Sex Sells in Vintage Camera Advertising

In decades past, cameras were sold almost exclusively to men.  As might predict, this is ...
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Attack of the Hick Flick! Redneck Cinema Posters and VHS Box Art

Attack of the Hick Flick! Redneck Cinema Posters and VHS Box Art

Yee-haw! Let's have a look at those hard drinkin', truck drivin', moonshinin' movies from the ...
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‘Check With Owen Wilson’: Steely Dan’s Open Letter To Wes Anderson

‘Check With Owen Wilson’: Steely Dan’s Open Letter To Wes Anderson

  In 2006, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, aka Steely Dan, wrote an open letter ...
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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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