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Love at First Light: Romance in 1970s Cigarette Advertising

Love at First Light: Romance in 1970s Cigarette Advertising

The key to good advertising is to invoke a subliminal association.  So, when you look ...
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Photographer Reunites Street Subjects From 40 Years Ago For The Same Picture

Photographer Reunites Street Subjects From 40 Years Ago For The Same Picture

In the late 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, Chris Porsz took photographs of people in his ...
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Whatever Happened to the Picturegoer Cover ‘Stars’? 1958-1960

Whatever Happened to the Picturegoer Cover ‘Stars’? 1958-1960

On the whole the cover stars were chosen for their glamorous looks as opposed to any proven acting ability. ...
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Leonard Cohen’s Music From The American Laboratory: The Lost Democracy Verses Revisited

Leonard Cohen’s Music From The American Laboratory: The Lost Democracy Verses Revisited

In 1991 Leonard Cohen was in conversation with Paul Zollo. They were discussing Cohen's song Democracy from ...
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Fear and Self-Loathing in Romance Comics

Fear and Self-Loathing in Romance Comics

  Romance comic books of the 1950s-1970s were nothing if not predictable.  You could be ...
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American Royalty: Mid-Century Movie Stars in Crowns and Tiaras

American Royalty: Mid-Century Movie Stars in Crowns and Tiaras

  "Give me my robe. Put on my crown. I have immortal longings in me" ...
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Leonard Cohen Snapshots At Home With His Sister Esther, Tinkie The Dog And A Naked Maid

Leonard Cohen Snapshots At Home With His Sister Esther, Tinkie The Dog And A Naked Maid

  "The only moment that you can live here comfortably in these absolutely irreconcilable conflicts ...
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The Peculiar Tale Of Robert Lenkiewicz And Diogenes, The Tramp Who Became The Ultimate Memento Mori

The Peculiar Tale Of Robert Lenkiewicz And Diogenes, The Tramp Who Became The Ultimate Memento Mori

The painted kept the body of a man known as Diogenes in a concealed drawer ...
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When Leonard Cohen Dropped Acid And Saved the Show (1972)

When Leonard Cohen Dropped Acid And Saved the Show (1972)

So long, Leonard Cohen (21 September 1934 – 10 November 2016). In 1972, the Canadian ...
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In Praise of David Worth: Tony Hall’s Unpublished Photos Of The British Collector, Male Model And Stylist

In Praise of David Worth: Tony Hall’s Unpublished Photos Of The British Collector, Male Model And Stylist

Before David Gandy, before Nick Kamen, there was David “Piggy” Worth.     “Piggy was ...
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Monster Stuff for Kids! Vintage Horror Comic & Magazine Adverts

Monster Stuff for Kids! Vintage Horror Comic & Magazine Adverts

Back in the 1960s, horror comics and monster magazines were loaded with advertisements for everything ...
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She Wears Short Shorts: 55 Images from the Golden Age of Hotpants

She Wears Short Shorts: 55 Images from the Golden Age of Hotpants

The official birthday of hotpants is 1970 by Mariuccia Mandelli of the Italian fashion label Krizia. ...
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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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