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Ken Russell’s Brilliant Photos of Teddy Girls from 1955

Ken Russell’s Brilliant Photos of Teddy Girls from 1955

In 1955 Ken Russell was commissioned to take photographs of working class girls in neo-edwardian clothing who called themselves Teddy Girls ...
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Wilton Felder’s Spine-Tingling Isolated Bass And Michael Jackson’s Soaring Vocals On I Want You Back

Wilton Felder’s Spine-Tingling Isolated Bass And Michael Jackson’s Soaring Vocals On I Want You Back

  In 1969, The Jackson 5 recorded I Want You Back, their first single released on ...
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Original Jinglers: The Only Jeans You Can Hear Coming (1970s)

Original Jinglers: The Only Jeans You Can Hear Coming (1970s)

"Bekant als.. The jeans with the bell. Die einzigen jeans die such auch hören lassen ...
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Luxurious Memories Of Pissing In Paris Urinals (1878 Photos)

Luxurious Memories Of Pissing In Paris Urinals (1878 Photos)

“Prostitutes like wilted flowers and pissoirs filled with piss-soaked bread” - Henry Miller's ode to ...
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Outstanding Color Street Photography Of 1980s New York, By Helen Levitt

Outstanding Color Street Photography Of 1980s New York, By Helen Levitt

“I never had a ‘project.’ I would go out and shoot, follow my eyes—what they ...
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Alice Stevens Her Book Given Her by the Revd Mr Orme of Oakham: The Story

Alice Stevens Her Book Given Her by the Revd Mr Orme of Oakham: The Story

  The book has been part of the family for over fifty years. It has ...
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Absurd Fashions From A 1980s Stasi Disguise Seminar

Absurd Fashions From A 1980s Stasi Disguise Seminar

In 1989, 91,015 comrades worked directly for the Stasi (short for Staatssicherheitsdienst, or State Security ...
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Sophie Scholl And The White Rose Rebellion : ‘We Are Your Bad Conscience’

Sophie Scholl And The White Rose Rebellion : ‘We Are Your Bad Conscience’

"Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also ...
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Beautiful Portraits of The Fabulous Ziegfeld Girls

Beautiful Portraits of The Fabulous Ziegfeld Girls

Hazel Forbes (1928).   A truth is often only what people want to believe. The ...
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Cardboard Politics: Remembering Amy Carter at the White House Play Set

Cardboard Politics: Remembering Amy Carter at the White House Play Set

  Although Amsco virtually cornered the market for cardboard play sets in the 1970s with ...
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Sex And The Censors: America’s First Obscene Books Commission (1953 – 1973)

Sex And The Censors: America’s First Obscene Books Commission (1953 – 1973)

"Trying to Define What May Be Indefinable": The Georgia Literature Commission, 1953-1973   It has ...
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Umberto Eco And Eugenio Carmi’s The Three Astronauts Teaches Us About Humanity (1966)

Umberto Eco And Eugenio Carmi’s The Three Astronauts Teaches Us About Humanity (1966)

In 1966, Umberto Eco treated readers to I tre cosmonauti (The Three Astronauts), the second issue 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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