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Found Photos: Anonymous 1970s Portraits

Found Photos: Anonymous 1970s Portraits

  My mother-in-law's house is wall to wall pictures like this. To her, these pictures ...
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DOCUMERICA 1971-1977: Dystopian Images Of America’s War On The Environment

DOCUMERICA 1971-1977: Dystopian Images Of America’s War On The Environment

In November 1971, America's new Environmental Protection Agency created the DOCUMERICA Project. The aim was ...
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Welcome To 1970s New York City: Riding The ‘Muggers’ Express’ Train

Welcome To 1970s New York City: Riding The ‘Muggers’ Express’ Train

  Ever ride the New York City subway system in the 1970s? If you did, the ...
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The Story of British Coal In Photos: 1930-1950

The Story of British Coal In Photos: 1930-1950

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Teenage Dreams At Florida’s Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink 1972-1973

Teenage Dreams At Florida’s Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink 1972-1973

  "The skaters became like actors parading their bodies, confronting one another for an audience ...
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Japanese Illustrations From A 1925 Edition Of Aesop’s Fables By Takeo Takei

Japanese Illustrations From A 1925 Edition Of Aesop’s Fables By Takeo Takei

  A hungry Fox saw some fine bunches of Grapes hanging from a vine that ...
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American Portraits 1979 – 1989: Artist Captures The Essence Of Life On Frontier USA

American Portraits 1979 – 1989: Artist Captures The Essence Of Life On Frontier USA

  In Portraits 1979-1989 Leon Borensztein introduces us to slices of American life on its Californian frontier. ...
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Leonard Nimoy and Magnavox: “The Brightest Ideas in the World Are Here to Play”

Leonard Nimoy and Magnavox: “The Brightest Ideas in the World Are Here to Play”

William Shatner is known as a pitchman extraordinaire for products including Promise Margarine, the Commodore ...
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Emilio Pucci Uniforms For Braniff International Airlines’ Hostesses, 1965-73

Emilio Pucci Uniforms For Braniff International Airlines’ Hostesses, 1965-73

Fashion designer Emilio Pucci (1914 - 1992) created outfits for the jet-set. From 1965 to 1973 Pucci dressed ...
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Hans Christian Andersen Diaries: Sex In Paris And Climbing Vesuvius As It Erupted

Hans Christian Andersen Diaries: Sex In Paris And Climbing Vesuvius As It Erupted

  "The lava looked like colossal, fallen stars. We rode again over the black lava ...
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The Story of British Coal In Photographs: 1900-1930

The Story of British Coal In Photographs: 1900-1930

“Can you taste it Bruce? Can you taste the filth, the dirt, the oily blackness ...
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Paint By Numbers: Artist Thomas Allen Lampoons Visual Color Systems

Paint By Numbers: Artist Thomas Allen Lampoons Visual Color Systems

“Color is your choice, but be sure it compliments the furnishings you already have. Select ...
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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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