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David Bowie Impersonates Springsteen, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Marc Bolan and Anthony Newly In This 1985 Studio Tape

David Bowie Impersonates Springsteen, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Marc Bolan and Anthony Newly In This 1985 Studio Tape

  David Bowie imitates Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Marc Bolan, Tom Waits and, according to Danny Baker, ...
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Epic Portraits of Native Americans By Edward S. Curtis (1890s)

Epic Portraits of Native Americans By Edward S. Curtis (1890s)

  Edward Sheriff Curtis was born to a clergyman and his wife on a farm ...
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Child’s Play: Alan Rickman’s 1970 Account of Murderous Children In An Inner-London Play Park

Child’s Play: Alan Rickman’s 1970 Account of Murderous Children In An Inner-London Play Park

Before he became a great actor Alan Rickman was a post-graduate student in graphic design at ...
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Dragon Ladies: Huge Stash Of 1980s LA Stripper Photos Found In Garage

Dragon Ladies: Huge Stash Of 1980s LA Stripper Photos Found In Garage

The following images are from a collection of over one thousand 35mm negatives made in 1984 by an amateur photographer known only as "B. Mason” ...
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The Best Versions Of Poe’s Tell-Tale Heart: The World’s First X-Rated Cartoon And Voices Of Horror

The Best Versions Of Poe’s Tell-Tale Heart: The World’s First X-Rated Cartoon And Voices Of Horror

  TRUE! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will ...
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Harry Clarke’s Spectacular Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe

Harry Clarke’s Spectacular Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe

In 1919, readers were treated to Irish artist Harry Clarke's spectacular illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s rich and ...
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Peter Hujar’s Sublime Portraits Of Downtown New York’s Misbegotten Community In The 1970s

Peter Hujar’s Sublime Portraits Of Downtown New York’s Misbegotten Community In The 1970s

Peter Hujar (1934-87) photographed the faces who made New York's Lower East Side fun and bohemian ...
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The Art Of The Photogram: The Most Wonderful Camera-Less Photographs

The Art Of The Photogram: The Most Wonderful Camera-Less Photographs

A photogram is a camera-less technique for image making. An object is placed upon a ...
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Incredible Marilyn Monroe Photos by Milton H. Green and Douglas Kirkland

Incredible Marilyn Monroe Photos by Milton H. Green and Douglas Kirkland

GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES starring MARILYN MONROE by MILTON H GREENE & DOUGLAS KIRKLAND is at ...
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Fabulous Portraits Of New York’s Neo-Burlesque Dancers (NSFW)

Fabulous Portraits Of New York’s Neo-Burlesque Dancers (NSFW)

Leland Bobbé took these photographs of burlesque performers in his New York City studio between 2010- ...
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Artist Creates Glorious Monochromatic Gifs

Artist Creates Glorious Monochromatic Gifs

The Gif is elevated to art by Laurène Bolgio. We love Gifs, as anyone who follows our ...
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What Makes Nancy Spungen So Great: A Handwritten List By Sid Vicious

What Makes Nancy Spungen So Great: A Handwritten List By Sid Vicious

  1978 was a defining year for Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen. On September 18, the lovers ...
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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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