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Gritty 1970s Photos of the NYPD Show the Banality, Brute Force, and Humor of “Life on the Beat” in Downtown Manhattan

Gritty 1970s Photos of the NYPD Show the Banality, Brute Force, and Humor of “Life on the Beat” in Downtown Manhattan

“Life on the beat” for the NYPD in Sixth Precinct between 1972 and 1979 ...
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Photos of Germany and Holland in 1981 by Simon Nowicki

Photos of Germany and Holland in 1981 by Simon Nowicki

Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist. - Julie Burchill ...
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‘After the War’ – Stunning Photos of South Korea 1956-1963 by Han Youngsoo

‘After the War’ – Stunning Photos of South Korea 1956-1963 by Han Youngsoo

The war had taken away many things. Not only had it mercilessly trampled down on our beloved families and neighbours, but also their happiness, hope, and furthermore humanity itself. As if that wasn’t enough, by the end it had utterly destroyed everything on the face of the earth leaving behind ruins, despair, famine and sorrow. ...
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Love, Music and Fear In New York City In The Summer 1973

Love, Music and Fear In New York City In The Summer 1973

  For the DOCUMERICA Project (1971-1977), the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hired around ...
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A Westerners Photographs Of China – 1982

A Westerners Photographs Of China – 1982

Simon Nowicki was in China just six years after Chairman Mao died. His photographs transport us to another time ...
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Hackney 1971-1981 – Before the Money Moved In

Hackney 1971-1981 – Before the Money Moved In

In the 1970s and 1980s Neil Martinson was photographing the largely beard-free Hackney with his Zenith-E camera ...
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Iconic Street Photographer Bruce Gilden’s Gritty Images of 70s and 80s New York City

Iconic Street Photographer Bruce Gilden’s Gritty Images of 70s and 80s New York City

“All of the archetypes present themselves for roll call: the two-bit hustlers, the hard-knuckled mafiosos, the spinsters in their smocks, the poor and the beaten down, the unconscionably rich…” ...
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Seeing Beauty In A Cold and Wet New York City With Saul Leiter

Seeing Beauty In A Cold and Wet New York City With Saul Leiter

Saul Leiter found signs of something beautiful that connects us all in pictures of a wet New York ...
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The Lost Street Photographs of Pittsburgh by Elliott Erwitt  (1950)

The Lost Street Photographs of Pittsburgh by Elliott Erwitt (1950)

“The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.” ...
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Documerica: Danny Lyon’s Photos of New York City in the Summer of 1974

Documerica: Danny Lyon’s Photos of New York City in the Summer of 1974

Many of the photographs, including those of Lyon’s, are the only distinct visual record of the time and place. ...
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Photographs of Portobello Road in 1950

Photographs of Portobello Road in 1950

Walking up “the Lane”, as we called it, was a stroll through the English class system even then as one progressed towards Holland Park. Notting Hill didn’t become gentrified – it always was. What happened was that North Kensington became Notting Hill. ...
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Photographs of Stoke Newington During the ‘Winter of Discontent’ by Alan Denney

Photographs of Stoke Newington During the ‘Winter of Discontent’ by Alan Denney

It was the coldest winter for sixteen years and will always be remembered as ‘the winter of discontent’ - from the famous first line from Shakespeare’s Richard III. ...
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