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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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Pictures Of London In 1967 by Libby Hall

Pictures Of London In 1967 by Libby Hall

Libby Hall's pictures of London feature one of my favourite photos to have appeared on ...
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Girls on Chairs: 50 Stunning Vintage Images of Seated Ladies

Girls on Chairs: 50 Stunning Vintage Images of Seated Ladies

"Girls on Chairs" doesn't have quite the same ring to it as the Duran Duran ...
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Iconographie Photographique de la Salpêtrière: The Physician and the Hysterical Women

Iconographie Photographique de la Salpêtrière: The Physician and the Hysterical Women

The Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière (1876-80) features the female patients of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot ...
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The Polyester Splendor of 1970s Men’s Fashion Advertising

The Polyester Splendor of 1970s Men’s Fashion Advertising

Do you think you have what it takes to endure a motherload of disco-era studs with ...
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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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    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 Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    "I get a thrill when they’re kneeling there, between my knees and they’re looking up at me. And I want them to call me Mr Hill, not Benny. ‘Is that all right for you, Mr Hill?’ That’s lovely, that is, I really like that,” I asked him why and he said, “Well, it’s respectful...”’ - Benny Hill ...
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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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