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When The Jazz Ambassadors Brought American Racism to The USSR

When The Jazz Ambassadors Brought American Racism to The USSR

In 1956, the US State Department created the Jazz Ambassadors program, hiring American jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, and Duke Ellington to be "ambassadors" for the United States overseas. ...
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The Subversive, Queer and Iconic Covers to Films & Filming Magazine 1970-81 (NSFW)

The Subversive, Queer and Iconic Covers to Films & Filming Magazine 1970-81 (NSFW)

Robin Bean described Films and Filming as a magazine for "gay men in the closet" who could ogle semi-naked stars on public transport without anyone thinking they were queer. ...
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When Charlie Chaplin Came 20th In A Charlie Chaplin Look-alike Contest

When Charlie Chaplin Came 20th In A Charlie Chaplin Look-alike Contest

When Charlie Chaplin entered in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest in 1920, he should have polled pretty high. ...
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George Silas Duntley : Photographs Of Chicago and Bushnell, Illinois 1899-1918

George Silas Duntley : Photographs Of Chicago and Bushnell, Illinois 1899-1918

A trained surgeon who removed his own tonsils, Duntley worked as an eye surgeon in poor rural areas and was often paid in chickens. ...
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Pre-Revolution Iranian Movie Posters – Bouffants, Bandits and Bikinis

Pre-Revolution Iranian Movie Posters – Bouffants, Bandits and Bikinis

The Hamid Naficy Iranian Movie Posters Collection at Northwestern University features films produced between 1966 ...
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There’s A Light That Never Goes Out: Ken Russell’s ‘Savage Messiah’

There’s A Light That Never Goes Out: Ken Russell’s ‘Savage Messiah’

In 1971, Russell directed three of his most successful films: The Music Lovers, The Devils and The Boyfriend. He was now rich and successful enough to pay back the debt he felt he owed to Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Sophie Brzeska. ...
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Bring Me the Head of Louis Raemaekers – The Art of War

Bring Me the Head of Louis Raemaekers – The Art of War

The Dutch artist whose biting cartoons forced people and countries to act ...
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The Occult Art of Austin Osman Spare: Child Prodigy, Anti-Nazi, and “Possibly the Greatest English Magician of the Twentieth Century”

The Occult Art of Austin Osman Spare: Child Prodigy, Anti-Nazi, and “Possibly the Greatest English Magician of the Twentieth Century”

The Observer remarked: “Mr. Spare’s art is abnormal, unhealthy, wildly fantastic and unintelligible - high praise indeed ...
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The Cassette Tape Story: Lou Ottens, Keith Richards’ Art And Sony Walkman Mix Tapes

The Cassette Tape Story: Lou Ottens, Keith Richards’ Art And Sony Walkman Mix Tapes

Remembering engineer Lou Ottens who led the team at Philips that invested the brilliant cassette tape ...
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The Enduring Beauty of Victorian Scraps

The Enduring Beauty of Victorian Scraps

Original Victorian scraps cost pennies to buy but can now make hundreds at auction. ...
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Photographs of Cheap Motels in 1970s America

Photographs of Cheap Motels in 1970s America

Mike Mandel's photographs of "economy" motels in 1970s America ...
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Life Amidst the Ruins: Beirut During and After the 1975-1990 Lebanese Civil War

Life Amidst the Ruins: Beirut During and After the 1975-1990 Lebanese Civil War

Just as its warring factions had a host of competing, even contradictory, agendas, those who remember the Lebanese conflict today are also subject to their ideological blind spots. ...
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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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