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Extraordinary Pictures of ‘Hippiedilly’ on Hyde Park Corner in 1969

Extraordinary Pictures of ‘Hippiedilly’ on Hyde Park Corner in 1969

Drug taking, couples making love while others look on, a heavy mob armed with iron bars, filth and stench, foul language, that is the scene inside the hippies’ fortress in London’s Piccadilly. These are not rumours but facts, sordid facts which will shock ordinary decent living people. Drug taking, squalor and sex. ...
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Photographs of Singer Françoise Hardy in London

Photographs of Singer Françoise Hardy in London

"In France, the image I had was of a shy girl - a poor lonely girl and not too good-looking. When I went to England, I had another image. I felt the journalists were much more interested in my looks than in my songs." - Françoise Hardy ...
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Riding The New York Subway – 1977-1984

Riding The New York Subway – 1977-1984

“When I get home, I say, ‘Thank God I made it’“ - Subway passenger to the New York Times - Bronx, NYC 1979 ...
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New Year’s Day in New York City – Sleeping Off The Booze (1938 – 1952)

New Year’s Day in New York City – Sleeping Off The Booze (1938 – 1952)

“The people of the United States spend exactly as much money on booze alone as on the space program” Isaac Asimov (1969) ...
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Glorious Photos and Posters of the Great French Entertainer Mistinguett

Glorious Photos and Posters of the Great French Entertainer Mistinguett

Her voice, slightly off-key, was that of the Parisian street hawkers—the husky, trailing voice of the Paris people. She was of the animal race that owes nothing to intellectualism. She incarnated herself. She flattered a French patriotism that was not shameful. It is normal now that she should crumble, like the other caryatids of that great and marvellous epoch that was ours. ...
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Vivian Maier in Color: The Ektachrome Slides

Vivian Maier in Color: The Ektachrome Slides

"She didn’t have to worry about either the orthodoxy or the approval of her peers” ...
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The Extraordinary Album Art by Mozelle Thompson

The Extraordinary Album Art by Mozelle Thompson

"Mozelle Thompson was the only prolific African American artist to illustrate album covers. He was a pioneer in his industry, working alongside the first-generation artists who contributed to the history of album cover art within the first 15 years of its existence." - J. Malls ...
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New York in Motion: Incredible Photographs of The City That Never Sleeps (1880s)

New York in Motion: Incredible Photographs of The City That Never Sleeps (1880s)

When not working as a chemist and at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Science's departments of Mineralogy and Astronomy, Wallace G. Levison was taking photographs. Advances in technology allowed Levison to capture his native New York in motion. ...
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More Found Wedding Portraits From 1960s New York (Part 2)

More Found Wedding Portraits From 1960s New York (Part 2)

Here's Part 2 of our look at New York wedding photos from a professional photographer working in the 1960s. The lighting, framing and composition suggest the photographer was no natural picture taker. As ever the question remains: is that you? Now let’s imagine the stories behind the photos… ...
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Some of the Earliest Photographic Views of Edinburgh, 1843-44

Some of the Earliest Photographic Views of Edinburgh, 1843-44

Some of the earliest views of the city and some of the most beautifully preserved calotype cityscapes from the period ...
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Desktop Dining: Photographer Brian Finke Pictures The Joy Of Eating In The Office

Desktop Dining: Photographer Brian Finke Pictures The Joy Of Eating In The Office

'Appetite that comes from hunger. It makes no fuss over the food that satisfies it. If it is great enough, a piece of raw meat will appease it as easily as a roasted pheasant or woodcock' - Alexandre Dumas ...
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Fascinating Photos of Chicago’s Tri-Taylor Neighborhood from 1971

Fascinating Photos of Chicago’s Tri-Taylor Neighborhood from 1971

"He told me many times that he got most of the pictures because he managed to talk a local gang leader into walking him around" ...
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