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Nursing Home Postcards: Waiting For God In Mid-Century America

Nursing Home Postcards: Waiting For God In Mid-Century America

What you are about to see are not film sets Stanley Kubrick thought too isolated ...
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22 Soviet Union Fabric Designs To Enhance Communist Emulation – 1920s-1930s

22 Soviet Union Fabric Designs To Enhance Communist Emulation – 1920s-1930s

  In the 1920s and 1930s, Soviet Union mills made sure the media was the message. ...
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Étienne-Jules Marey: Filming Life On The Move Through An All-Seeing Eye

Étienne-Jules Marey: Filming Life On The Move Through An All-Seeing Eye

  French physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey's photo gun (1882) enhanced his reputation in chronophotography, in which several sequential frames of ...
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Haunting Portraits of Immigrants At Ellis Island by Lewis W. Hine (1905-1926)

Haunting Portraits of Immigrants At Ellis Island by Lewis W. Hine (1905-1926)

“[Photographers are] the Human Document to keep the present and the future in touch with ...
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15 Beautiful French Art-Deco Travel Posters by Roger Broders

15 Beautiful French Art-Deco Travel Posters by Roger Broders

Roger Broders was born in Paris in 1883. A brilliant illustrator he is best known ...
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John Steinbeck: A 1958 Letter To His Son On Falling in Love

John Steinbeck: A 1958 Letter To His Son On Falling in Love

  John Steinbeck was a Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner. In addition to his great work ...
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The Horror of Guy N Smith

The Horror of Guy N Smith

  Guy N Smith was not considered suitable reading for English class when I was ...
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Police Files: Decoding The Mark Of Cain 1960-1989

Russian Criminal Tattoo Police Files: Decoding The Mark Of Cain 1960-1989

From the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, Arkady Bronnikov, a senior expert in criminalistics at the USSR ...
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Watch A Bleak Film Of Every Atomic Explosion Since 1945

Watch A Bleak Film Of Every Atomic Explosion Since 1945

    Walt Disney taught us to love the atom and its wondrous power to ...
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38 Photos That Prove Victorian Women Never Cut Their Hair

38 Photos That Prove Victorian Women Never Cut Their Hair

Women in the Victorian era competed to see who has the strongest next muscles. To prove ...
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Weird Trippy Sex Pictures From Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts

Weird Trippy Sex Pictures From Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts

Visions of the hellish hereafter ...
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Agatha Christie – Unfinished Portrait:  Unseen And Rare Photographs Of The ‘Queen of Crime’

Agatha Christie – Unfinished Portrait: Unseen And Rare Photographs Of The ‘Queen of Crime’

"Oh I’m an incredible sausage machine, a perfect sausage machine!… I always think it must ...
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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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