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Beyond ‘Monster Mash’: 20 Novelty Songs from the Mid-Century Horror Craze

Beyond ‘Monster Mash’: 20 Novelty Songs from the Mid-Century Horror Craze

  We all know "Monster Mash" by Bobby Boris Pickett from 1962, but there were ...
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Studio Prints: At A Printmaker’s Workshop In Kentish Town (1970)

Studio Prints: At A Printmaker’s Workshop In Kentish Town (1970)

The 1970 BBC documentary At A Printmaker’s Workshop focuses on Dorothea Wight’s fabled Studio Prints ...
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Color Slides of New York City, April 1979

Color Slides of New York City, April 1979

"I have never returned to New York so my view of the city is stuck ...
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Portraits From The Photo Booth Time Machine: West London In The 1980s

Portraits From The Photo Booth Time Machine: West London In The 1980s

Myself and my friends were born and bred in suburban West London, writes Mark Charnock. In ...
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Smells Like Only Yesterday: Vintage Perfume Advertising

Smells Like Only Yesterday: Vintage Perfume Advertising

Back in January 2015, we covered men's cologne advertising (That Manly Scent She Craves); so, ...
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Bob Dylan’s Screen Test For Andy Warhol’s Stillies (1965)

Bob Dylan’s Screen Test For Andy Warhol’s Stillies (1965)

In 1965 Andy Warhol made a short black-and-white film of Bob Dylan. Recording on a Bolex 16mm camera ...
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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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    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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