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A Product of Genius: A Eulogy for Sony Betamax (1975 – 2016)

A Product of Genius: A Eulogy for Sony Betamax (1975 – 2016)

In March of 2016, Sony will finally stop manufacturing Betamax cassettes all-together. The loser in ...
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Por Los Punk Rockers: Listen To Spanish Punks Rip Off The Sex Pistols (1978)

Por Los Punk Rockers: Listen To Spanish Punks Rip Off The Sex Pistols (1978)

  There was punk. And there was bad punk. In 1978, Spanish record label Dial ...
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The Book of Miracles: Wondrous Medieval Illustrations of Divine Horror

The Book of Miracles: Wondrous Medieval Illustrations of Divine Horror

  We can't be certain who wrote the Augsburg Book of Miraculous Signs, a luxuriously illustrated ...
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Montgomery Ward Fall-Winter Catalogue 1978: Men’s Casual Fashion

Montgomery Ward Fall-Winter Catalogue 1978: Men’s Casual Fashion

Remember the guy that was supposed to be the new heartthrob on Welcome Back, Kotter ...
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Wonderful Collection of Ephemera from Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon

Wonderful Collection of Ephemera from Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon

Somehow I keep coming back to Barry Lyndon. I think that’s because it’s such a profoundly emotional experience - Martin Scorsese ...
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Would You Believe…Don Adams Pitch Man for Skittle Games?

Would You Believe…Don Adams Pitch Man for Skittle Games?

  The late, great Don Adams (1923-2005) gained long-lived pop culture fame for his role ...
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The Art of Ornamental Orange Peeling (1910)

The Art of Ornamental Orange Peeling (1910)

In December 1910, American Homes And Gardens magazine featured an article by Harold J Shepstone ...
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Edward Gorey’s Wonderfully Illustrated Envelopes And Letters

Edward Gorey’s Wonderfully Illustrated Envelopes And Letters

"This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, ...
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Miss Birmingham City 1987

Miss Birmingham City 1987

  In 1987, England's Birmingham City football club announced that 20-year-old Noreen Campbell was Miss ...
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New York City In The 1970s:  Times Square Peep Shows And Pimps

New York City In The 1970s: Times Square Peep Shows And Pimps

Leland Bobbé's photographs take us back to New York City in the 1970s, when,as he ...
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‘May Your Bare Ass Always Be Shining’ – Eleanor Roosevelt Writes To Gypsy Rose Lee

‘May Your Bare Ass Always Be Shining’ – Eleanor Roosevelt Writes To Gypsy Rose Lee

“If you’re Gypsy Rose Lee, all you have to do is keep your strength up ...
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Roman Vishniac: East European Life Before Destruction

Roman Vishniac: East European Life Before Destruction

  "These are the faces of children I embraced and kissed and loved. I cannot ...
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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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    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Part of the Documerica project - a program sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to "photographically document subjects of environmental concern" in the United States from about 1972 to 1977. ...
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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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    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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    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, middle-aged host asks each young swimsuit-clad contestant "If there was one thing you could do what would it be?" The answers are always the same: "I would bring about world peace." It's a nice thought--though ...
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