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Truth and Soul: The New York Dolls’ Fashion Revival

Truth and Soul: The New York Dolls’ Fashion Revival

Sylvain Sylvain Mizrahi in Austin   On a recent trip to Austin, Texas, I enjoyed ...
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Roller-Vinyl! 20 Records from the Roller Skating Craze of the 1970s-80s

Roller-Vinyl! 20 Records from the Roller Skating Craze of the 1970s-80s

At some point in the mid to late seventies, the US and other countries suddenly ...
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Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi: The Most Punk Play Of All Time

Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi: The Most Punk Play Of All Time

Michael Meschke’s adaptation of Alfred Jarry’s scatological and chaotic play Ubu Roi was performed at the Marionetteatern ...
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The Spider-Man Underscore: Groovy Incidental Music From The 1960s TV Series

The Spider-Man Underscore: Groovy Incidental Music From The 1960s TV Series

  We can thank J Robert 'Bob' Harris (music) and three-time Oscar winner Paul Francis Webster ...
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Postcards of Dead Bodies: Grim Souvenirs From The  Mexican Revolution

Postcards of Dead Bodies: Grim Souvenirs From The Mexican Revolution

Would you send a postcard featuring the picture of a dead body of a pile of charred ...
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Sublime Portraits Of Native Americans At The Dawn of The 20th Century

Sublime Portraits Of Native Americans At The Dawn of The 20th Century

We've shown you photographs of Native Americans in the early 1900s before, most notably Edward C. Curtis's wonderful ...
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Cassette Tape Advertising of the 1960s-1980s

Cassette Tape Advertising of the 1960s-1980s

Never has an advertisement lied as badly as this Scotch cassette tape ad from 1976. ...
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Soundsuits: Nick Cave’s Noisy Human Masquerade Ball

Soundsuits: Nick Cave’s Noisy Human Masquerade Ball

Nick Cave (born February 4, 1959 in Fulton, Missouri) crafts Soundsuits: intriguing, captivating, expressive, unnerving, otherworldly ...
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Disco Meets Dukes of Hazzard: A 1980 Fashion Spread

Disco Meets Dukes of Hazzard: A 1980 Fashion Spread

Talk about a time capsule! Luke Duke (Tom Wopatt) and Daisy Duke (Catherine Bach) model ...
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Ordering Clothes Off The Internet With Instant Delivery: A Great Video From 1959

Ordering Clothes Off The Internet With Instant Delivery: A Great Video From 1959

As Amazon and others work out how to deliver goods ordered via the internet to ...
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The Greyhound Bus Terminal, Washington DC: April 1941

The Greyhound Bus Terminal, Washington DC: April 1941

April 1941, and the Greyhound bus terminal at Washington DC is bustling. The waiting room ...
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‘Fanny Hill – Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure’ Covers and Artwork (NSFW)

‘Fanny Hill – Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure’ Covers and Artwork (NSFW)

I thrill / To any book like Fanny Hill, / And I suppose I always ...
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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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    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Part of the Documerica project - a program sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to "photographically document subjects of environmental concern" in the United States from about 1972 to 1977. ...
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    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

      It was a Saturday evening, St Valentine’s Day 1970, when William Jellett first thought he might be Jesus. He was on the London Underground, travelling back from work, and noticed the headline of the newspaper unfurled opposite him: “Cambridge riots — two policemen beaten up”. There had been student protests the ...
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    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    “It kept me from eating it if it was framed on the wall” - Mark Mcloud on his amazing collection of LSD Blotters ...
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    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

      In 1980, Chuck Berry spoke to St Louis-based punk zine Jet Lag (1980 -1991). Berry talked about his first gig, signing with Leonard Chess's Chess Records, his role as a "teenage historian" and "what the kids are listening to these days". He was invited to review some records. Chuck Berry's record ...
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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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    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    There is a moment in every one of those tacky beauty pageants when the sweaty, middle-aged host asks each young swimsuit-clad contestant "If there was one thing you could do what would it be?" The answers are always the same: "I would bring about world peace." It's a nice thought--though ...
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