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Character Heads: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Twisted Sculptures From The Age of Reason

Character Heads: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Twisted Sculptures From The Age of Reason

“Anything great in this world has come from neurotics” - Marcel Proust   Franz Xaver ...
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Photos Of A Daring Expedition To Antarctica, 1911-1914

Photos Of A Daring Expedition To Antarctica, 1911-1914

'MEN WANTED for hazardous journey, small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant ...
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On This Day In Photos: October 7th In The 20th Century

On This Day In Photos: October 7th In The 20th Century

Photos we found of people, places and events on October 7th in the 20th Century...
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Henry Miller On The Sublime Joy Of Pissing In Public (1934)

Henry Miller On The Sublime Joy Of Pissing In Public (1934)

  In 1934 Henry Miller was living with Alfred Perlès in Clichy, Paris. He and Perlès were employed as ...
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Cigarette Cards Celebrating The Coronation of HM King George & HM Queen Elizabeth, 1937

Cigarette Cards Celebrating The Coronation of HM King George & HM Queen Elizabeth, 1937

My grandparents smoked--and they must have smoked a hell of a lot to collect the ...
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1970s Meat Zone: The Stomach-Churning World Of Meat Processing Magazine

1970s Meat Zone: The Stomach-Churning World Of Meat Processing Magazine

  Vegans, shield your eyes. You're about to enter an All-70s-Meat-Zone, and it's not going ...
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Found Photos: Great Polaroids Of A 1960s Halloween Party

Found Photos: Great Polaroids Of A 1960s Halloween Party

All we know about these photos is that they were taken in the 1960s in ...
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When Alfred Hitchcock Changed One Boy’s Life With Kindness And Art (1962)

When Alfred Hitchcock Changed One Boy’s Life With Kindness And Art (1962)

  In March of 1962, Alfred Hitchcock was filming The Birds in Bodega Bay. He took a ...
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Shtetl, My Destroyed Home: Issachar Ber Ryback’s Avant-Garde Art of Remembrance (1922)

Shtetl, My Destroyed Home: Issachar Ber Ryback’s Avant-Garde Art of Remembrance (1922)

Russian artist Issachar Ber Ryback was a leading light for the Yiddish avant-garde movement. These lithographs ...
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12 Satirical Maps Of World War One

12 Satirical Maps Of World War One

These maps offer perspectives on Europe at the onset of World War One in 1914. They are all ...
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One Got Fat: A Strange Bicycle Safety Film (1963)

One Got Fat: A Strange Bicycle Safety Film (1963)

  The story behind One Got Fat, a 1963 bicycle safety film, is simple: A ...
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Sci-Fi TV: 1987 – Of Comic Books, Blipverts and Road Warriors

Sci-Fi TV: 1987 – Of Comic Books, Blipverts and Road Warriors

  The year was 1987. U.S. President Ronald Reagan was dealing with the fall-out from ...
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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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