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R2-D2 and C-3PO: When Star Wars Robots Became TV Stars

R2-D2 and C-3PO: When Star Wars Robots Became TV Stars

The premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) is just a few months away ...
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We Can Be Heroes – London’s New Romantics: 1979-1981

We Can Be Heroes – London’s New Romantics: 1979-1981

London’s club life from hard-edged 1970s punk to the dreamy 1980s New Romantics ...
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schweppervescence! Eleven Schweppes Ads From The 1950s and 60s

schweppervescence! Eleven Schweppes Ads From The 1950s and 60s

Johann Jacob Schweppe founded the Schweppes Company in Geneva in 1783 to sell carbonated water. ...
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Outland: Roger Ballen’s Portraits Of Life On The Edge Of Reincarnation

Outland: Roger Ballen’s Portraits Of Life On The Edge Of Reincarnation

Roger Ballen's Outland is an archetypal series of images he began work on in 1995. No ...
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The [Murderous] Crows of Pearblossom: Aldous Huxley’s Children’s Book illustrated By Barbara Cooney (1967)

The [Murderous] Crows of Pearblossom: Aldous Huxley’s Children’s Book illustrated By Barbara Cooney (1967)

"ONCE UPON A TIME there were two crows who had a nest in a cottonwood ...
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Doodle Pad Dollies: Artist ‘Fills In The Lines’ On A DIY Mid-Century Sex Mag

Doodle Pad Dollies: Artist ‘Fills In The Lines’ On A DIY Mid-Century Sex Mag

In the 1940s and 1950s, women led double lives. By day and in public they ...
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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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    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 Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    "I get a thrill when they’re kneeling there, between my knees and they’re looking up at me. And I want them to call me Mr Hill, not Benny. ‘Is that all right for you, Mr Hill?’ That’s lovely, that is, I really like that,” I asked him why and he said, “Well, it’s respectful...”’ - Benny Hill ...
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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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