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The End of Days: Albrecht Dürer’s Woodcuts for ‘The Apocalypse’ – 1498

The End of Days: Albrecht Dürer’s Woodcuts for ‘The Apocalypse’ – 1498

The rise of the neighbouring Ottoman Empire instilled a terror of the Turks. For many Christians, this fear had merged with a belief the coming millennium 1500 would see the end of the world as foretold in Saint John's Book of Revelation. ...
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Early Colour Photographs of New York 1900-1930

Early Colour Photographs of New York 1900-1930

The following selection of colour images of New York between 1900-30 include Autochromes, hand-painted images, and postcards. ...
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Me And The A-Listers – Fabulous Found Photos Of An Unknown Man Posing With Hollywood’s Finest At The Oscars And More In 1994

Me And The A-Listers – Fabulous Found Photos Of An Unknown Man Posing With Hollywood’s Finest At The Oscars And More In 1994

A fabulous collection of found photos from Hollywood 1994 ...
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The Beauty of the Heavens, An Illustrated Home School Lesson On Astronomy, 1842

The Beauty of the Heavens, An Illustrated Home School Lesson On Astronomy, 1842

'In no part of the creation has the Almighty left himself without a witness; but it is in the heavens above that the Divine attributes are most gloriously displayed' ...
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Stylish Middle-Aged American Women from the 1960s

Stylish Middle-Aged American Women from the 1960s

These stylish, elegant, and really quite beautiful photographs of middle-aged American women from the 1960s capture a time when people put an effort into presenting the best of themselves. ...
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Frederic Edwin Church’s Iceberg Paintings – 1859 – 1861

Frederic Edwin Church’s Iceberg Paintings – 1859 – 1861

An American artists beautiful pantings of icebergs between Labrador and Greenland ...
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Music Stars Before and During Lockdown

Music Stars Before and During Lockdown

Let's imagine a possible future where Alain Bibal's photographs are historic documents of how life ...
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Life-Sized Wax Figures of Hollywood Stars From The 1980s and 1990s

Life-Sized Wax Figures of Hollywood Stars From The 1980s and 1990s

Did you or anyone you know buy one of these celebrity waxworks in 2009? ...
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A War Hero’s Avant-Garde Mannequins from 1920s Paris

A War Hero’s Avant-Garde Mannequins from 1920s Paris

Noted for her work in World War 2, Therese Bonney also worked in Paris as a mannequin photographer ...
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Buy Prints Johann Bayer’s 12 Maps Of The Zodiac – 1603

Johann Bayer’s 12 Maps Of The Zodiac – 1603

Hand-coloured engravings from Johann Bayer's star atlas 'Uranometria Omnium Asterismorum' ...
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Takeuchi Seihō’s Twelve Signs of the Zodiac – 1905

Takeuchi Seihō’s Twelve Signs of the Zodiac – 1905

Takeuchi Seihō’s album of the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac (栖鳳画伯筆十二支帖), 1905-06, is a woodblock ...
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‘I shall die very young…maybe 70, maybe 80, maybe 90’ – Pictures of Jeanne Moreau

‘I shall die very young…maybe 70, maybe 80, maybe 90’ – Pictures of Jeanne Moreau

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead. ...
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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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