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Charlie Watts’ Ode to a Highflying Bird – An Illustrated Tribute to Charlie Parker – 1960

Charlie Watts’ Ode to a Highflying Bird – An Illustrated Tribute to Charlie Parker – 1960

In 1960 a graphic arts student named Charlie Watts wrote a drew a book in tribute to his inspiration, the great jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker ...
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Segregation, Music and the FBI in Mid-Century Memphis Tennessee

Segregation, Music and the FBI in Mid-Century Memphis Tennessee

"Photography is a collection of memories. One who is trained in photography knows that. Instinctively, ...
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A Photographic Tour of Kilburn in 1998

A Photographic Tour of Kilburn in 1998

In 1998, photographer Peter Marshall was taking a walk though Kilburn, north-west London. Taking in ...
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Louis D. Nimschke’s Fabulous Etching Workbook from 19th Century New York City

Louis D. Nimschke’s Fabulous Etching Workbook from 19th Century New York City

Master engraver Louis D. Nimschke customised guns for Presidents and Emperors from his New York City studio ...
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Still Life in 1960s New York

Still Life in 1960s New York

In Evelyn Hofer: New York we see moment of exquisite stillness in the city that never sleeps ...
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At Home With April Dawn Alison – Pin-Up, Fetish Model and Drudge

At Home With April Dawn Alison – Pin-Up, Fetish Model and Drudge

When photographer Alan Schaefer died, he left behind self-portraits of his alter ego, the multi-talented April Dawn Alison ...
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How Florence Nightingale Saved Lives Through Her Data Visualisation

How Florence Nightingale Saved Lives Through Her Data Visualisation

The pioneer of professional nursing fomented change with cutting-edge statistics ...
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Harrods for Everything: The 1912 Catalogue For All Things For All People, Everywhere

Harrods for Everything: The 1912 Catalogue For All Things For All People, Everywhere

Over 100 years ago the London department store was the Amazon of its day ...
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Glorious Stills, Lobby Cards and Posters of Josef von Sternberg’s Shanghai Express

Glorious Stills, Lobby Cards and Posters of Josef von Sternberg’s Shanghai Express

“A shaft of white light used properly can be far more effective than all the color in the world used indiscriminately.” – Josef von Sternberg ...
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The Bloody Valentine’s Day Massacre and a Nightclub Toilet

The Bloody Valentine’s Day Massacre and a Nightclub Toilet

A reporter at the scene, called O'Rourke from the Chicago American, memorably remarked after looking down at his shoes: I’ve got more brains on my feet than I have in my head. ...
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Snapshots of a Family Trip to Michigan’s Prehistoric Forest in 1979

Snapshots of a Family Trip to Michigan’s Prehistoric Forest in 1979

"My dad was an amateur photographer back then," write Trina Ferris, a native of Kalamazoo, ...
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The Story of Soho Girl Jessie Matthews

The Story of Soho Girl Jessie Matthews

In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted. ...
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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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