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Grete Stern’s Surreal Dreams Of Female Emancipation (1948 – 1951)

Grete Stern’s Surreal Dreams Of Female Emancipation (1948 – 1951)

In 1948, Argentinian women's magazine Idilio commissioned German-born Grete Stern (1904 - 1999) to illustrate the weekly ...
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When God Gave Shane MacGowan A Kebab (1978)

When God Gave Shane MacGowan A Kebab (1978)

  In 1978, The Nipple Erectors (featuring a pre-Pogues Shane MacGowan) and The Maniacs starred in ...
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The Incredible Miniature Worlds Of View-Master

The Incredible Miniature Worlds Of View-Master

  Hey everyone. This post is about all about View-Master and their amazing Miniature worlds, ...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Sketch Of An Odd Dinner With His Hero James Joyce (1928)

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Sketch Of An Odd Dinner With His Hero James Joyce (1928)

  In 1928 author F. Scott Fitzgerald Fitzgerald and James Joyce shared a dinner in Paris. The meal ...
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The Other Side Of The Berlin Wall: Life On A Street In 1980s East Germany

The Other Side Of The Berlin Wall: Life On A Street In 1980s East Germany

"Everyone seemed to feel connected to the place and responsible for it, to be acting ...
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Eddie, Elvis & Gene: Let It Rock’s T-shirts Based On James Dean’s in Rebel Without A Cause (1972)

Eddie, Elvis & Gene: Let It Rock’s T-shirts Based On James Dean’s in Rebel Without A Cause (1972)

The series of shirts bearing the names of rock n roll idols were first produced for sale in the summer of 1972. ...
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Artist Makes Hieronymus Bosch Piñatas

Artist Makes Hieronymus Bosch Piñatas

LA-based artist Roberto Benavidez makes fabulous hand-made piñatas. Benavidez, a self-styled "half-breed, South Texan, queer, figurative ...
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A Look Inside British Invasion Obsessed Teen Magazines (1965-1966)

A Look Inside British Invasion Obsessed Teen Magazines (1965-1966)

We're about to take a walk through several issues of 16 Magazine from 1965-66 where ...
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The US Army’s Official ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ Homosexual Policy Comic Book (2001)

The US Army’s Official ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ Homosexual Policy Comic Book (2001)

In 2001, the US Army published Dignity & Respect: A Training Guide on Homosexual Conduct Policy. ...
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The Ever-Present “Lady in Red” in Vintage Pulp Fiction

The Ever-Present “Lady in Red” in Vintage Pulp Fiction

What was it that made pulp producers habitually put a girl in a red dress ...
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‘Kiss My Ass’: Bill Baxley’s 1976 Letter To The KKK

‘Kiss My Ass’: Bill Baxley’s 1976 Letter To The KKK

On February 28 1976, Bill Baxley (born June 27, 1941), Attorney General of Alabama (1971 ...
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Television in the Gutter – A Hilarious TV Guide Parody from 1977

Television in the Gutter – A Hilarious TV Guide Parody from 1977

The April 1977 issue of National Lampoon declares: "Producers have no taste, networks make fortunes, ...
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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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