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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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Marvellous Pictures of a Day trip to Bristol in July 1958

Marvellous Pictures of a Day trip to Bristol in July 1958

Allan Hailston, the photographer of these wonderful photographs, recalls how he ended up in Bristol ...
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Oily Biceps and Neon Spandex: Muscle & Fitness Magazines of the 1980s

Oily Biceps and Neon Spandex: Muscle & Fitness Magazines of the 1980s

  It was a time of hyper-concentration on appearance. The Baby Boomers were out of ...
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Take it Anywhere: Remembering Blip, The Digital Game (Tomy, 1977)

Take it Anywhere: Remembering Blip, The Digital Game (Tomy, 1977)

  Here’s another crazy artefact from the 1970s, a handheld game console from Tomy called, ...
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The First Same-Sex Kiss in Cinema (1916)

The First Same-Sex Kiss in Cinema (1916)

In 1927, audiences were treated to a same-sex kiss. In Wings, winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture, ...
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Wonderful Kodachromes of 1950s Utah by Max Gene Leonard

Wonderful Kodachromes of 1950s Utah by Max Gene Leonard

"Utah native Max Gene Leonard got a job with the US Department of Defense school system ...
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Vinyl Studs: Macho Album Cover Ladykillers of the 1960s-1980s

Vinyl Studs: Macho Album Cover Ladykillers of the 1960s-1980s

  Even Henry Mancini, the ever-classy composer, wasn't immune to the album cover custom of portraying ...
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The Farm Hall Transcripts: German Nuclear Scientists Weep For Hiroshima And Regret Not Annihilating London (1945)

The Farm Hall Transcripts: German Nuclear Scientists Weep For Hiroshima And Regret Not Annihilating London (1945)

Werner Heisenberg and his team were tasked with building a nuclear weapon for Nazi Germany. 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 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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