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The Nightmare That Was “His & Her” Fashions

The Nightmare That Was “His & Her” Fashions

Yes, in the 1960s-80s a couple could wear matching sweaters without the slightest sense of ...
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To Love a Mannequin: A Troubling Christian Dior Advert from 1969

To Love a Mannequin: A Troubling Christian Dior Advert from 1969

This 1969 French advertisement for Gaines Et Gorges (a lingerie brand from Christian Dior) features a gentleman ...
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Poor Richard Nixon: A Biting Pre Donald Trump Satire On Another Transparent Fraud (1971)

Poor Richard Nixon: A Biting Pre Donald Trump Satire On Another Transparent Fraud (1971)

In 1971, Philip Guston (1913-1980) lampooned Richard Nixon in a series of 180 drawings called Philip Guston's ...
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Why Superman Turned Lois Lane Black And Then Refused To Marry Her In 1970

Why Superman Turned Lois Lane Black And Then Refused To Marry Her In 1970

In November 1970, Lois Lane asked Superman a question: "Will you Marry me just the way I ...
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Toking For Jesus: The Cannabis Spiritual That Slipped Past The Censors (1971)

Toking For Jesus: The Cannabis Spiritual That Slipped Past The Censors (1971)

One Toke Over The Line was performed on The Lawrence Welk Show, a television program ...
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Fascinating Photos of Dublin in 1973

Fascinating Photos of Dublin in 1973

Photos of Dublin in May 1973 by Heinrich Klaffs. Ireland had just joined the EEC ...
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Loved To Bits: Portraits Of My Teddy

Loved To Bits: Portraits Of My Teddy

  “When you see these teddy bears and bunnies with missing noses and undone stuffing, ...
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Big 1980s Hair: A Casting Call For Your Hairstyles

Big 1980s Hair: A Casting Call For Your Hairstyles

Hair. It's always about the hair. What fashion statement better represents a particular era better ...
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Illustrations From Tea-Cup Fortune Telling by Minetta (1920)

Illustrations From Tea-Cup Fortune Telling by Minetta (1920)

Illustrations from Tea-cup Fortune Telling: The Signs Illustrated and Simply Explained by Minetta, W. Foulsham ...
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Women Selling Booze: The Ladies of Vintage Alcohol Advertising

Women Selling Booze: The Ladies of Vintage Alcohol Advertising

Allow me to boil down the entire marketing strategy for nearly every alcoholic beverage company ...
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River City Reunion: Beat Generation Authors Reconvene In Kansas 1987

River City Reunion: Beat Generation Authors Reconvene In Kansas 1987

  "I think it was Allen Ginsberg who first suggested a get together in Lawrence, ...
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Fabulousness: Kansai Yamamoto’s David Bowie-Influencing Catwalk Show (1971)

Fabulousness: Kansai Yamamoto’s David Bowie-Influencing Catwalk Show (1971)

“It was a spectacular coup de théâtre – Kansai’s models came on moving. They leapt, ...
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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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