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An Evil Genius Of Inventive Malice: John Deakin Under The Influence In Soho

An Evil Genius Of Inventive Malice: John Deakin Under The Influence In Soho

  “The second nastiest little man I have ever met” – Barbara Hutton "An evil ...
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It Pushes You to Your Limit: Remembering Computer Perfection (1979)

It Pushes You to Your Limit: Remembering Computer Perfection (1979)

Lakeside's Electronic Perfection was billed in 1979 as "the ultimate playmate" and the same advertising ...
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USA vs. Bikers, Commies, & Savages! A Fun-Filled Look at Action Mag Xenophobia

USA vs. Bikers, Commies, & Savages! A Fun-Filled Look at Action Mag Xenophobia

We're all familiar with the "When Animals Attack" trope of the vintage action magazine.  However, ...
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Edward Bawden: Life In An English Village, 1949

Edward Bawden: Life In An English Village, 1949

Edward Bawden (1903–1989) drew these delightful lithographs of his home village of Great Bardfield in Essex. Life ...
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The Southern Comfort Happy Hour Bar Guide from 1969

The Southern Comfort Happy Hour Bar Guide from 1969

The Happy Hour! The most popular way to entertain today! So said Southern Comfort who ...
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1960s Austin Gangsters: Nihilists with Cadillacs and Elvis Hair

1960s Austin Gangsters: Nihilists with Cadillacs and Elvis Hair

Over cocktails at Austin’s Townes Van Zandt Hotel I was captivated by writer Jesse Sublett’s ...
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Chris Spedding: A 1970s Unsung Style Hero

Chris Spedding: A 1970s Unsung Style Hero

  Guitarist Chris Spedding is one of the unsung heroes of Seventies style. I’ve been ...
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Gastro-Disasters: Spectacularly Appalling Food Adverts from Yesteryear

Gastro-Disasters: Spectacularly Appalling Food Adverts from Yesteryear

  Mmm-mm. Dee-lish!  They sure knew how to make a meat paste look tasty back ...
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Life Is Elsewhere: Abandoned Schools In The Irish Countryside

Life Is Elsewhere: Abandoned Schools In The Irish Countryside

Cork-based Enda O’Flaherty's photographs of abandoned schools in Ireland are haunting, colorful, eerie and make ...
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Glove Puppets The Buddha of Bauhaus Paul Klee Made For His Son Felix

Glove Puppets The Buddha of Bauhaus Paul Klee Made For His Son Felix

Paul Klee (1879-1940), aka 'Buddha of the Bauhaus', made eight glove puppets for his son Felix’s ninth ...
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19th-Century Photographer Félix Nadar On How To Be Brilliant And Make Money From Art

19th-Century Photographer Félix Nadar On How To Be Brilliant And Make Money From Art

"In photography, like in all things, there are people who can see and others who ...
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Twenty-Five Men’s Fashion Ads in Playboy 1966-1977

Twenty-Five Men’s Fashion Ads in Playboy 1966-1977

In the 1960s and 1970s Playboy was one of the most popular men's magazines in ...
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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 Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    Cass Elliot died choking on a ham sandwich; everybody knows that. Except that she didn’t. ...
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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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    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    "I humbly invite you to take a stroll through my life in the squatter community of the Lower East Side (LES) in the 1990s," writes Ash Thayer, whose book, Kill City, focuses on New York City squatters, harking back to another age, when city's were not being made overly safe, libraries were valued ...
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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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    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Let's time travel to the 1970s, when the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) was a fun place to study. Michael Jang was a student at CalArts, a school set up by Walt Disney in the 1960s. Jang wandered about the place, aiming the Leica camera he'd bought from a wedding photographer at his ...
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