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Taishō Era Posters: Modernism In Japan, 1912 to 1926

Taishō Era Posters: Modernism In Japan, 1912 to 1926

These posters date from Japan's Taishō era (大正時代 Taishō jidai?) - July 30, 1912, to December 25, 1926, coinciding with the reign of the Emperor Taishō. ...
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Pictures of Post-War Lambeth compared to the year 2000

Pictures of Post-War Lambeth compared to the year 2000

“For us born and bred south Londoners, sun is always the herald of rain. Things are always less good than they were; or, we prophesy with relish, not as bad as they’re going to be…” - Angela Carter ...
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‘People, Light, Life and Emotion’: An Interview with Brilliant Photographer Zeno Watson

‘People, Light, Life and Emotion’: An Interview with Brilliant Photographer Zeno Watson

'My long-term project is The Streets of Glasgow a 20-plus-year project, photographing the life on the Glasgow Streets.' ...
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Sex And Death From Outer Space – ‘The Village of the Damned’ – 1960

Sex And Death From Outer Space – ‘The Village of the Damned’ – 1960

John Wyndham's novels were never cosy. At best, they were dark tales of speculative fiction examining how life continues to exist - in all its mundane desperate ways - against monstrous forces attempting to destroy it. ...
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A Stroll Round Tottenham, London – c. 1989

A Stroll Round Tottenham, London – c. 1989

We're off for a stroll around Tottenham with Peter Marshall, who took these pictures as ...
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The Art of King Kong: How the Great Ape Was First Sold to International Audiences in 1933

The Art of King Kong: How the Great Ape Was First Sold to International Audiences in 1933

Kong is misunderstood: his instinct is protective rather than destructive. ...
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Kodachrome Photographs of Beirut, Lebanon In May 1965

Kodachrome Photographs of Beirut, Lebanon In May 1965

American Charles Cushman's photographs of Lebanon before the wars ...
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Torture Devices For Your Frat House And Lodge From A 1908 Catalogue

Torture Devices For Your Frat House And Lodge From A 1908 Catalogue

'Every article in this catalog is guaranteed to be exactly as represented' - DeMoulin Brothers & Co. of Greenville, Illinois ...
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The Attitude of Sydney Street Life by Australian Flaneur Arthur K Syer – Photographs 1885-1890

The Attitude of Sydney Street Life by Australian Flaneur Arthur K Syer – Photographs 1885-1890

Syer’s low angle photographs were taken surreptitiously, using a ‘detective camera’. Such cameras, sometimes concealed in parcels or portmanteau, were made possible with the invention of the dry plate in 1880. ...
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Vintage Hollywood Stars Dressed-Up as Easter Bunnies – And Why They Did It

Vintage Hollywood Stars Dressed-Up as Easter Bunnies – And Why They Did It

This allegedly is how the Easter Bunny and the fine tradition of giving chocolate eggs to people on Easter Sunday morning began. ...
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Ghost Town: Photographer Documents A Deserted Glasgow During Lockdown

Ghost Town: Photographer Documents A Deserted Glasgow During Lockdown

For photographer and archivist Neil McDonald, Lockdown was an opportunity to document the impact of a global pandemic on his home city of Glasgow ...
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High Times: Mary Jane Rathbun’s Marijuana Brownies

High Times: Mary Jane Rathbun’s Marijuana Brownies

'If the narcs think I'm gonna stop baking brownies for my kids with AIDS, they can go fuck themselves in Macy's window' - Mary Jane Rathbun ...
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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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