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Selling Harvest-Gold Shag: Carpet Ads from the 1960s-1970s

Selling Harvest-Gold Shag: Carpet Ads from the 1960s-1970s

Ah.  Floor covering ads are the best.  Stare in nostalgic wonder at the often tacky, ...
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Josie & the Pussycats Get Demonically Possessed in 1973

Josie & the Pussycats Get Demonically Possessed in 1973

A while back, I discovered an old Josie & the Pussycats dealing with satanic possession.  An odd ...
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NASA’s Future of Space Travel Posters In A Gorgeous Retro Style

NASA’s Future of Space Travel Posters In A Gorgeous Retro Style

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has created 14 Visions of the Future. In 1962, NASA began an Art ...
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Re-Directed Art: Tired Thrift Store Paintings Become Modern Masterpieces

Re-Directed Art: Tired Thrift Store Paintings Become Modern Masterpieces

  If you consider it, we don't like much. If art is whatever you want ...
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Computer Magazine Cover Girls of the 1970s and 80s

Computer Magazine Cover Girls of the 1970s and 80s

What's more fun than looking at old computer magazines and admiring the paleo-technology? The thick ...
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Let the Sunshine In: More Tanning Advertising from the 1960s-1980s

Let the Sunshine In: More Tanning Advertising from the 1960s-1980s

A few years back, we brought you a cornucopia of tanning adverts from yesteryear.  Well, ...
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Patti Smith in Andy Warhol’s Interview, October 1973

Patti Smith in Andy Warhol’s Interview, October 1973

  Here’s another Patti Smith item from the archive: a feature by Penny Green from ...
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“Say ‘Fuck You’ To The World”: Sol LeWitt’s Inspiring Letter To Eva Hesse

“Say ‘Fuck You’ To The World”: Sol LeWitt’s Inspiring Letter To Eva Hesse

  On April 14 1965, Sol LeWitt (September 9, 1928–April 8, 2007) wrote to his friend Eva ...
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Girls on Chairs: 25 Vintage Album Covers of Sexy Seated Sirens of Song

Girls on Chairs: 25 Vintage Album Covers of Sexy Seated Sirens of Song

Let's be honest - it's not the most creative concept for an album cover.  Just ...
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Forbidden Furs: Mid-Century Snapshots Of Women And Men Wearing Mink

Forbidden Furs: Mid-Century Snapshots Of Women And Men Wearing Mink

In the mid-20th Century, the mink coat was the apogee of elegance ...
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E. B. White Champions The Free Press And Warns Against Unhealthy Sponsored Posts (1976)

E. B. White Champions The Free Press And Warns Against Unhealthy Sponsored Posts (1976)

In February 1976, Esquire magazine intended to publish a 23-page article by Harrison Salisbury (November 14, 1908 – ...
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French Fashion ’71: Stunning Women’s Styles from 1971 France

French Fashion ’71: Stunning Women’s Styles from 1971 France

While seventies fashions already were pushing the envelope - the French added their own brand of ...
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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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