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Stay Broke, Shoot Film: Alain Bibal’s Iconic Rock Photography

Stay Broke, Shoot Film: Alain Bibal’s Iconic Rock Photography

Born in France in 1964, Bibal started taking photographs in his late-teens and early-twenties but "nothing really serious." Any dreams he harboured were sidelined when he started work and focussed on having a regular life. This, of course, all changed on his fiftieth birthday. ...
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Beyond the Bus: The Story of Rosa Parks’ Lifetime of Civil Rights Activism

Beyond the Bus: The Story of Rosa Parks’ Lifetime of Civil Rights Activism

Known to schoolchildren everywhere as the “brave lady who wouldn’t give up her seat,” few are aware that Parks began her activist career over 20 years before her refusal in 1955 sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott ...
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Women At War: Lush Kodachrome Photos Of Engineers At The Douglas Aircraft Company

Women At War: Lush Kodachrome Photos Of Engineers At The Douglas Aircraft Company

"American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft Company, give important help in producing dependable planes for their men at the front, Long Beach, California" ...
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The True Blue Cookery Book – 1977

The True Blue Cookery Book – 1977

Highlights and lowlights from 'an assembly of recipes contributed by conservative members of parliament and their wives' ...
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Too pinko for Dan or How Slim Pickens replaced Peter Sellers as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove

Too pinko for Dan or How Slim Pickens replaced Peter Sellers as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove

Kubrick had optioned Peter George’s book Red Alert and was working on a screenplay with George when he realised the impossibility of making a melodrama out such an horrific subject and thought the only rational response was to make “a nightmare comedy." ...
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See No Evil: A Vintage Guide To Television Taboos

See No Evil: A Vintage Guide To Television Taboos

"TV gals can't show too much leg or bust. They can't be seen in flimsy lace dainties. They can't wear too-tight swathers. And as for kissing - it must be dignified and cool." ...
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Pennie Smith’s Candid Photos of The Clash During their First U.S. Tour in 1979

Pennie Smith’s Candid Photos of The Clash During their First U.S. Tour in 1979

Rock photographer Pennie Smith has never seen her London Calling cover photo of Paul Simonon about to smash his bass at the Palladium in New York as the crowning achievement of her career. ...
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Reel Stories: Photographs from a Lost Roll of Film (Los Angeles, 1930)

Reel Stories: Photographs from a Lost Roll of Film (Los Angeles, 1930)

These photographs come from a lost roll of film found in an antique store in Downtown Los Angeles. ...
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Watching Aldous Huxley Die – 1963

Watching Aldous Huxley Die – 1963

As he lay dying, Laura Huxley asked her husband if he wanted some LSD. He did. This is what she saw... ...
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New York’s  Lower East Side Punk Scene In Photos From the Early 1980s

New York’s Lower East Side Punk Scene In Photos From the Early 1980s

As squatters took over abandoned buildings, living side by side with black and Latinx residents, they immersed themselves in the sound of hardcore, punk, and hip hop exemplified by bands like The Clash, Beastie Boys, Bad Brains, Black Flag, the Misfits, and Minor Threat. ...
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The Brilliant Avant-Garde Movie Posters of the Soviet Union

The Brilliant Avant-Garde Movie Posters of the Soviet Union

"It is time for art to flow into the organisation of life." - Alexander Rodchenko, 1921 ...
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The Bizarre Book Covers for the First U.S. Paperback Editions of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Books, Made By an Artist Who Had Never Read Them

The Bizarre Book Covers for the First U.S. Paperback Editions of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Books, Made By an Artist Who Had Never Read Them

Barbara Remington’s first cover is truly an exercise in interpreting the idea of The Hobbit, rather than its content, since she was not given a chance to read the book when she received the commission. ...
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    Debbie Harry And Me – Shooting The Blondie Singer in 1970s New York City

    Debbie Harry And Me – Shooting The Blondie Singer in 1970s New York City

    Chris Stein 's photographs of Debbie Harry and friends take us back to a great era of music ...
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    The First ‘Sext’ – Sarah Goodridge’s ‘Beauty Revealed’ (1828)

    The First ‘Sext’ – Sarah Goodridge’s ‘Beauty Revealed’ (1828)

      'Beauty Revealed' is a self-portrait by the American artist Sarah Goodridge (February 5, 1788 - December 28, 1853). Descendants of US Secretary of State Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) say Goodridge painted it for him. Why is unclear. But we can guess. Robert Remini, in ...
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    Fabulous Photographs of Cruising Van Nuys Boulevard In 1972

    Fabulous Photographs of Cruising Van Nuys Boulevard In 1972

    Rick McCloskey's fabulous photographs of a vanished Californian youth culture ...
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    Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

    Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

    In 2014 Los Angeles-based photographer Merrick Morton (a onetime LAPD reserve officer) spotted a derelict stash of haunting LAPD crime photos. Here they are. ...
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    Too pinko for Dan or How Slim Pickens replaced Peter Sellers as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove

    Too pinko for Dan or How Slim Pickens replaced Peter Sellers as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove

    Kubrick had optioned Peter George’s book Red Alert and was working on a screenplay with George when he realised the impossibility of making a melodrama out such an horrific subject and thought the only rational response was to make “a nightmare comedy." ...
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    Dirty Sex, Freaks And Derelicts Of 1980s New York City (NSFW)

    Dirty Sex, Freaks And Derelicts Of 1980s New York City (NSFW)

    “Before I arrived in NYC in 1980 I had lived in Berlin and London so I was ready for the rotten apple from the beginning.” ...
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    ‘A Shit of the Highest Order!’ The Story of the Charming Lord ‘Bob’ Boothby

    ‘A Shit of the Highest Order!’ The Story of the Charming Lord ‘Bob’ Boothby

    To his face, the writer, campaigner and broadcaster Sir Ludovic Kennedy once called Baron Boothby of Buchan and Rattray Head, his mother’s cousin, ‘a shit of the highest order’. Boothby’s response was to chortle, rub his hands and say: ‘Well a bit. Not entirely.’ ...
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    The Anarchy Tour of 1976

    The Anarchy Tour of 1976

    Ray Stevenson's Extraordinary Photos of the Clash and the Sex Pistols... ...
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    The Sixteen Pleasures: The Vatican’s 16th Century Sex Guide

    The Sixteen Pleasures: The Vatican’s 16th Century Sex Guide

      I Modi (The Ways) is best known as The Sixteen Pleasures, an illustrated sex guide published by Marcantonio Raimondi in 1524. Based on paintings by Giulio Romano, The Sixteen Pleasures carries the proud boast of being the first work of pornography banned by the Catholic church. For his gross indecency, Raimondi was imprisoned by ...
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    Tea For Two: The Last Photos Of Jimi Hendrix Alive, By Monika Dannemann

    Tea For Two: The Last Photos Of Jimi Hendrix Alive, By Monika Dannemann

    On September 17, 1970, Jimi Hendrix with in London his German girlfriend, the former ice-skating teacher Monika Dannemann.  She had rented rooms at the Samarkand, a self-catering apartment hotel in Notting Hill. After a day out at Kensington Market and the Cumberland Hotel, Jimi and Monika took tea in the garden behind her flat. Monika ...
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