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Asylum: Inside The Ruins Of America’s Vast Mental Hospitals

Asylum: Inside The Ruins Of America’s Vast Mental Hospitals

Christopher Payne takes us back to when mental illness was even less understood than it ...
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David Bowie’s Lucien Freud Wallpaper (1995)

David Bowie’s Lucien Freud Wallpaper (1995)

This segment of Laura Ashley wallpaper has a repeat print of David Bowie’s portrait of ...
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Elvira: An Illustrated History of The Mistress of the Dark

Elvira: An Illustrated History of The Mistress of the Dark

In 1981, Cassandra Peterson was working at a typewriter for a low wage secretarial job when her ...
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Bert Hardy’s Personal Vintage Collection: Extraordinary British Photojournalism

Bert Hardy’s Personal Vintage Collection: Extraordinary British Photojournalism

Bert Hardy (19 May 1913 – 3 July 1995), born in London, worked his way ...
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Henri Matisse Illustrations For James Joyce’s Ulysses – The Book He Never Read (1935)

Henri Matisse Illustrations For James Joyce’s Ulysses – The Book He Never Read (1935)

In 1935 Henri Matisse illustrated James Joyce's Ulysses for the Limited Edition Club in America. As ...
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This Could Be Your Head! The Shrunken Head Apple Sculpture Kit (1975)

This Could Be Your Head! The Shrunken Head Apple Sculpture Kit (1975)

  Here’s another crazy toy from the bygone age of the 1970s to remember just ...
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I Was A Male Hair Model In The 1970s – Photos

I Was A Male Hair Model In The 1970s – Photos

In the 1970s men eschewed barbers' shops for the hairdressers marked "unisex" or "gents". The ...
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Mata Hari In Photos: The Ultimate Femme Fatale and Woman of Courage

Mata Hari In Photos: The Ultimate Femme Fatale and Woman of Courage

Before we get to the life of Mata Hari, the woman who epitomises spying and ...
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Sirens of Chrome: The Fabulous Models of Vintage Auto Shows

Sirens of Chrome: The Fabulous Models of Vintage Auto Shows

Once upon a time, it was a pretty lady in go-go boots who introduced the masses ...
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Schöne Frau! Far-Out German Fashions of 1966-1968

Schöne Frau! Far-Out German Fashions of 1966-1968

Popular opinion is divided on whether women's fashions from the 1970s and 1980s were, overall, a thing ...
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Adverts in the March 1959 Issue of Picturegoer Magazine

Adverts in the March 1959 Issue of Picturegoer Magazine

                   
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Caviar Fishing On The Caspian Sea (1949)

Caviar Fishing On The Caspian Sea (1949)

In 1949 Russian cinematographer and photographer Vladislav Mikosha (1909-2004) spent a day with fishermen looking ...
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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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