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Revere Beach in 1937 by ‘Camera Man’ Leslie Jones

Revere Beach in 1937 by ‘Camera Man’ Leslie Jones

Revere Beach in Massachusetts was founded in 1895 and was actually the first public beach ...
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Cher: Style, Mugshots, Nudity and Other Wonderful Photographs From A Wonderful Life

Cher: Style, Mugshots, Nudity and Other Wonderful Photographs From A Wonderful Life

Cher (born Cherilyn Sarkisian on May 20, 1946) is a megastar. Charming, talented and youthful in the ...
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All New Adventures of the U.S.S. Enterprise and its Crew: Remembering the Star Trek Log Books

All New Adventures of the U.S.S. Enterprise and its Crew: Remembering the Star Trek Log Books

With Star Trek’s 50th anniversary fast approaching this September 8th, I want to shine a ...
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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, ...
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Watch Grace Jones Knock Them Dead As She Sings With Luciano Pavarotti

Watch Grace Jones Knock Them Dead As She Sings With Luciano Pavarotti

  On May 28 2002, Grace Jones took the stage in Modena, Italy, for Luciano Pavarotti’s Pavarotti ...
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31 Gorgeous Covers From Books of Russian Futurism (1910-30)

31 Gorgeous Covers From Books of Russian Futurism (1910-30)

The story of Russian Futurism began in Italy on February 20 1909, when millionaire poet F.T. ...
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Test Your Flight Skills: Remembering Mattel’s Vertibird (1971)

Test Your Flight Skills: Remembering Mattel’s Vertibird (1971)

  In 1971, Mattel produced one of the greatest toys of a generation: the Vertibird. ...
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Behind The Scenes With The Rolling Stones (1965 – 1967)

Behind The Scenes With The Rolling Stones (1965 – 1967)

"When I went to America with the Rolling Stones, it was just the five of them, me ...
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How A Computer System Works (1975)

How A Computer System Works (1975)

  I thought it might be fun to take a quick tour through a book ...
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Go Away: 33 Unwelcome Vintage Snapshots

Go Away: 33 Unwelcome Vintage Snapshots

  It would be easy to think of snapshot photography as professional photography dumbed way down for ...
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Scandalous: Jem Men’s Magazine (Feb 1958)

Scandalous: Jem Men’s Magazine (Feb 1958)

  We're going to take a tour through the whole February 1958 issue of the ...
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Meet The Jangs: An Asian Family Trying To Assimilate Into 1970s America

Meet The Jangs: An Asian Family Trying To Assimilate Into 1970s America

Not everyone gets to see their family photos on display at the San Francisco Museum of ...
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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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