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Photographs of ‘El Segundo Barrio’ of El Paso in 1972 by Danny Lyon

Photographs of ‘El Segundo Barrio’ of El Paso in 1972 by Danny Lyon

Documerica was a program sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to "photographically document ...
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Beatus of Facundus : A Vivid Illustrated Guide to the Apocalypse (1047)

Beatus of Facundus : A Vivid Illustrated Guide to the Apocalypse (1047)

A monk's vivid illustrations of the The Revelation of John ...
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Andrei Tarkovsky : My Top 10 Films

Andrei Tarkovsky : My Top 10 Films

In 1972, the great Russian director listed his favourite films ...
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Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

Part of the Documerica project - a program sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to "photographically document subjects of environmental concern" in the United States from about 1972 to 1977. ...
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Gimme Shelter From Hell’s Angels: Meredith Hunter, Alan Passaro And The Rolling Stones Horror Show

Gimme Shelter From Hell’s Angels: Meredith Hunter, Alan Passaro And The Rolling Stones Horror Show

On December 6 1969 Meredith Hunter was stabbed to death by a Hell's Angel at The Rolling Stones’ Altamont Free Concert... ...
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Rocketman: Elton John And Mr Freedom’s Winged Boots  (1971)

Rocketman: Elton John And Mr Freedom’s Winged Boots (1971)

During the production of Elton John biopic Rocketman there were plans for a scene set in London’s groundbreaking pop-art boutique Mr Freedom in the early 70s. This was to set up the central character’s visual transformation during visits to the store under the influence of its charismatic founder and frontman, the late, lamented Tommy Roberts ...
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The Chattanooga Sit-Ins  – February 1960

The Chattanooga Sit-Ins – February 1960

On February 19 around 200 black students began a peaceful protest against segregation at four businesses on one block in Chattanooga, Tennessee ...
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“Actionpacked Gayness” – The First Issues of Gay News from 1972

“Actionpacked Gayness” – The First Issues of Gay News from 1972

There are as many laughs to be had in its pages as there are sorrowful stories and angry rants – all of life is in these pages. ...
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Elliott Erwitt: An Itinerant Life In Photographs

Elliott Erwitt: An Itinerant Life In Photographs

"I do not think that you get up in the morning with the goal to take an iconic picture. It simply does not work that way. Perhaps you get lucky enough to get a picture that is good and that gets good use and is then seen by many people. I suppose a picture has to be seen by many people before it can be iconic. That is part of the definition." ...
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Wonderful Photographs of Sydney Fifty Years Ago

Wonderful Photographs of Sydney Fifty Years Ago

Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive and smart." - Baz Luhrmann ...
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Creativity from Boredom and Routine: On Kawara’s ‘I Got Up’ Postcards (1968 – 1979)

Creativity from Boredom and Routine: On Kawara’s ‘I Got Up’ Postcards (1968 – 1979)

Between 1968 and 1979, On Kawara created the series 'I Got Up', in which he sent picture postcards to friends and family, noting his time of getting up, the date, the place of residence and the name and address of the receiver. ...
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Roberto Donetta Lost And Found: Extraordinary Photographs Of A Wandering Master

Roberto Donetta Lost And Found: Extraordinary Photographs Of A Wandering Master

Nicknamed the 'Vagabondo' his glass plates of rural life in Alpine Switzerland were stored undiscovered in an attic until they were found in the 1970s. ...
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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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