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Kawanabe Kyōsai’s Pictures of One Hundred Demons – 1890

Kawanabe Kyōsai’s Pictures of One Hundred Demons – 1890

Created by Japanese artist, satirist and political caricaturist Kawanabe Kyōsai (May 18, 1831 – April ...
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Mid-Century Manhattan : 1950s New York City in Kodachrome

Mid-Century Manhattan : 1950s New York City in Kodachrome

Harold Mayer's photographs show us 20th Century New York City in glorious color ...
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My Father, My Dad, My Friend – Vintage Photos To Celebrate Father’s Day

My Father, My Dad, My Friend – Vintage Photos To Celebrate Father’s Day

In appreciation of dad, Robert E. Jackson selects a gallery of snapshots ...
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London’s West End in 1967 – Harrison Forman’s Kodachrome Photographs

London’s West End in 1967 – Harrison Forman’s Kodachrome Photographs

American adventurer Harrison Forman was in London in 1967. His photos take us back there ...
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Burnt-Out Bushwick : Photographs of Brooklyn In the ‘Discopian’ 1980s

Burnt-Out Bushwick : Photographs of Brooklyn In the ‘Discopian’ 1980s

Meryl Meisler was there when New York rattled like the bars on a monkey's cage ...
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Buy Prints Gerda Wegener’s Erotic Illustrations For Les Delassements d’Eros 1925 (NSFW)

Gerda Wegener’s Erotic Illustrations For Les Delassements d’Eros 1925 (NSFW)

Gerda Wegener caused a sensation with her gorgeous images of beautiful women - her art is equal to it ...
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Illustrated Lists of Great Writers and Artists

Illustrated Lists of Great Writers and Artists

From Picasso's best artists to fining love in New York City, lists make sense of the incomprehensible ...
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Photographs of Staten Island and New York Harbor in 1973

Photographs of Staten Island and New York Harbor in 1973

Let's take the bridge and the ferry to Staten Island in 1973 ...
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The Long Good Friday –  How The Great British Gangster Film Got Its Name

The Long Good Friday – How The Great British Gangster Film Got Its Name

The struggle between a freelance gangster and idealists in 1980s London ...
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Hugh Mangum Portraits: The Itinerant Photographer Who Captured Black and White America

Hugh Mangum Portraits: The Itinerant Photographer Who Captured Black and White America

Mangum worked in the American South at the height of Jim Crow segregation laws - he welcomed blacks and whites alike ...
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The Bizarre, Human-Animal Hybrids Imagined by Lucien Rudaux – 1938

The Bizarre, Human-Animal Hybrids Imagined by Lucien Rudaux – 1938

When a famous French artist created visions of alternative human evolution ...
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A Hundred Fables by Jean La Fontaine Illustrated by Percy J Billinghurst – 1900

A Hundred Fables by Jean La Fontaine Illustrated by Percy J Billinghurst – 1900

Fontaine's 239 fables are a composite blend of Western and Eastern stories adapted into French free verse ...
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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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