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Blow-vertising: 27 adverts for cocaine paraphernalia (1976 -1981)

Blow-vertising: 27 adverts for cocaine paraphernalia (1976 -1981)

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, magazines like High Times and Hustler featured adverts on ...
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Drive-By Shooting: People Cruising The Freeways of Los Angeles (1989-1997)

Drive-By Shooting: People Cruising The Freeways of Los Angeles (1989-1997)

Andrew Bush takes photographs of people motoring along Los Angeles freeways. To create what he calls Vector Portraits, Bush ...
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Patterns Of Chaos: Artist Makes Stunning Aerial Photos Of Earth

Patterns Of Chaos: Artist Makes Stunning Aerial Photos Of Earth

German photographer Stephan Zirwes' aerial photographs are superb. Peering down on natural and manmade settings ...
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The Peek-A-Boo Girl Gets Cut: In 1943 Veronica Lake Saved America And A Million Women’s Hair

The Peek-A-Boo Girl Gets Cut: In 1943 Veronica Lake Saved America And A Million Women’s Hair

    In 1943, Veronica Lake (nee Constance Keane) illustrated what could happen to women war ...
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Rugged Steel Worlds! Remembering the Carry-All Action Playsets by Marx

Rugged Steel Worlds! Remembering the Carry-All Action Playsets by Marx

  In the late 1960s, toymaker Marx introduced an incredible new concept in toys: giant ...
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Wild Raspberries And Fighting Gefilte Fish: Andy Warhol’s 1959 Spoof of Haute Cuisine Cookbooks

Wild Raspberries And Fighting Gefilte Fish: Andy Warhol’s 1959 Spoof of Haute Cuisine Cookbooks

In 1959, interior designer and bohemian hostess Suzie Frankfurt was perusing the art displayed at New York's Manhattan’s ...
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Rare Photos Of Frida Kahlo Wearing A Plaster Communist Corset, Feeding Ducks And On A New York Rooftop

Rare Photos Of Frida Kahlo Wearing A Plaster Communist Corset, Feeding Ducks And On A New York Rooftop

These rare photographs of Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907–July 13, 1954) are from a show at ...
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Cats, Chemicals And A Gun Under The Pillow: Dying William S. Burroughs’s Daily Routine

Cats, Chemicals And A Gun Under The Pillow: Dying William S. Burroughs’s Daily Routine

These are the last private musings and reflections of William S. Burroughs, written from mid-November ...
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21 Fantastic Pulp Fiction Book Titles From The Mid 20th Century

21 Fantastic Pulp Fiction Book Titles From The Mid 20th Century

Pulp Fiction at its best is insolent, cruel, lurid, provocative, escapist and fast. The wit is ...
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22 Unforgettable British Football Programme Covers From The 1960s, 70s And 80s

22 Unforgettable British Football Programme Covers From The 1960s, 70s And 80s

The joy of old football programmes... ...
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30 Vintage Japan Illustrations – 1950s-1970s

30 Vintage Japan Illustrations – 1950s-1970s

“It doesn’t occur to most people that everything is designed — that every building and everything they touch in the world is designed” - Bill Moggridge ...
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Where No Collectibles Have Gone Before: A Survey of Weird Star Trek Merchandising Tie-Ins (1966 – 1996)

Where No Collectibles Have Gone Before: A Survey of Weird Star Trek Merchandising Tie-Ins (1966 – 1996)

Star Trek has been around, and popular, for nearly a half-century at this point.  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 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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