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Lawrence Ferlinghetti : Poems and Paintings From The City of Lights

Lawrence Ferlinghetti : Poems and Paintings From The City of Lights

Lawrence Ferlinghetti's paintings finally get their own show ...
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Buy Prints From Nudes to an Earthquake: The trail-blazing photography of Arnold Genthe

From Nudes to an Earthquake: The trail-blazing photography of Arnold Genthe

Like many other photographers at the time, Genthe documented everything. He was a portrait photographer, a photo-journalist, and an artist. ...
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The Radical Art of The Black Panther, the Revolution’s Newspaper from 1967 to 1980

The Radical Art of The Black Panther, the Revolution’s Newspaper from 1967 to 1980

Every revolutionary movement has its graphic art—bold lines, eye-catching colors, slogans aplenty. It is a form so well-worn as to have become cliché, a mode of communication that evolved with advertising and newspapers and used the same technologies. So it was with the Black Panther Party for Self Defense... ...
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Burning Man Struggles for the Desert Against Ravers, New Agers, and Hippies in 1998

Burning Man Struggles for the Desert Against Ravers, New Agers, and Hippies in 1998

If someone takes their clothes off in the desert, it’s no more a political statement than it is an invitation to sex. It’s just another mode of experience. Get over it. ...
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One of the First True Monorail Systems Debuts in 1910, Wins High Praise from Winston Churchill, Then Fails

One of the First True Monorail Systems Debuts in 1910, Wins High Praise from Winston Churchill, Then Fails

In the early 20th Century Irish-born inventor Louis Brennan invented a monorail inspired by a child's toy ...
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The Story Of ‘Punk’

The Story Of ‘Punk’

The rotten etymology of Punk - a word used to describe music for centuries ...
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Chalmers Butterfield’s Travels In Kodachrome

Chalmers Butterfield’s Travels In Kodachrome

A gorgeous series of slides documenting an American's travels in the 1950s and 1960s ...
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Summer Weather: Portraits From A 1983 San Francisco TV Station Audition

Summer Weather: Portraits From A 1983 San Francisco TV Station Audition

I found these strips in an envelope. I put them up to the light, and there were all these heads. I had an inkling that they might be interesting, but I really had no idea. ...
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Haight Street Hippies In The Summer of Love

Haight Street Hippies In The Summer of Love

Kodachromes of hippies idling in Haight Ashbury - 1967-1968 ...
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Arnold Genthe’s Fascinating Photos of Japan In 1908

Arnold Genthe’s Fascinating Photos of Japan In 1908

Two years after his photographic studio burnt down in the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake Arnold Genthe made a six month trip to a rapidly changing Japan. ...
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Remarkable Photographs of San Francisco’s Chinatown At The End Of The 19th Century

Remarkable Photographs of San Francisco’s Chinatown At The End Of The 19th Century

Around 1900, Berlin-born naturalised American Arnold Genthe took (often covert) pictures of street life in San Francisco's Chinatown. ...
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The 1960s American Car And Road Trip In Kodachrome

The 1960s American Car And Road Trip In Kodachrome

These Kodachrome slides are from when go-ahead Americans believed a flying car was just around the corner ...
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