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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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Paul Sougy : Wonderful Illustrations On The Human Body

Paul Sougy : Wonderful Illustrations On The Human Body

In the mid 20th Century, French teachers would teach science with these delightful wall hangings ...
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A Day In The Life Of Pennsylvania Miners – November 1942

A Day In The Life Of Pennsylvania Miners – November 1942

Photographs of miners going to work and at the coal face ...
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Brilliant Photos, Lobby Cards and Posters from the Beatles’ Film – A Hard Day’s Night

Brilliant Photos, Lobby Cards and Posters from the Beatles’ Film – A Hard Day’s Night

A Hard Day's Night was intended as, "a low-budget exploitation movie to milk the latest brief musical craze for all it was worth." ...
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Photoprovocations by Russian Sergey Chilikov

Photoprovocations by Russian Sergey Chilikov

Photography wasn’t given credence as a legitimate art form and even classic Soviet photography wasn’t included in museum exhibitions. In order to get their work seen, photographers started their own clubs, exchanging work with other clubs and organizing their own exhibitions and festivals. ...
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John Hinde and his Fabulous Colourful Postcards

John Hinde and his Fabulous Colourful Postcards

Hinde was an innovator in a world where serious photography was black and white, and where colour photography was poor – because neither Ireland nor Britain had the technological capabilities to reproduce the vibrant hues Hinde dreamed of. ...
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Colour Pictures of the Festival Pleasure Gardens in Battersea Park in 1953 by Vern Orton

Colour Pictures of the Festival Pleasure Gardens in Battersea Park in 1953 by Vern Orton

The Pleasure Gardens were meant to bring “elegant entertainment” to the people and create a classless environment where different and exciting forms of entertainment were available to everyone. ...
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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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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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Tank Training at Fort Knox in 1942

Tank Training at Fort Knox in 1942

In June 1942, Office of War Information photographer Alfred T. Palmer (1906–1993) visited Fort Knox, ...
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On The Streets of Detroit Michigan in 1973

On The Streets of Detroit Michigan in 1973

In 1973 Don Hudson was a student at the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts - he photographed what he saw ...
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Hilma af Klint’s Cosmic Art Of The Invisible

Hilma af Klint’s Cosmic Art Of The Invisible

“I had no idea what they were supposed to depict… I worked swiftly and surely, without changing a single brush stroke.” ...
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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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