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Girls And Gardens : The English Lady’s Autochromes (c.1908)

Girls And Gardens : The English Lady’s Autochromes (c.1908)

Etheldreda Laing's photographs takes us to where the fairies live at the bottom of the garden ...
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1960s New York Street Life: James Jowers’ Snapshots of ‘Disorder and Imperfection’

1960s New York Street Life: James Jowers’ Snapshots of ‘Disorder and Imperfection’

"I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images, it comes closest to the truth" ...
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Around The World In Kodachrome  – A Nobel Laureate’s Outstanding Travel Photographs

Around The World In Kodachrome – A Nobel Laureate’s Outstanding Travel Photographs

In the 1950s and 60s Martin Karplus took his camera where ever he went - and he went everywhere (pretty much) ...
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Headbangers: Electric Photos Of Metal Fans In Head Thrashing Ecstasy

Headbangers: Electric Photos Of Metal Fans In Head Thrashing Ecstasy

"It's about the ecstasy, the ferocity of the music that just becomes one with the body. Metal music is extreme, so your movements have to follow along. This is not just nodding your head a little bit, the entire body has to be involved, it's about the monster inside." ...
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The Streets of New York City – 1977-1978

The Streets of New York City – 1977-1978

This is the second and final part of a wonderful album of black-and-white New York City photographs by Spanish photographer Manel Armengol. ...
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Extraordinary Photographs by Léonard Misonne

Extraordinary Photographs by Léonard Misonne

These superb photographs taken by the Belgian photographer Misonne elevate the everyday into fine art. ...
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On The Streets of New York City – 1977-1978

On The Streets of New York City – 1977-1978

Manel Armengol's photographs takes us back to New York in the late 1970s ...
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Hunter Barnes’ Extraordinary Photographs Of Life On The Road

Hunter Barnes’ Extraordinary Photographs Of Life On The Road

"The road has taught me what I know today. These are the stories I have waited to tell” - Hunter Barnes ...
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A Slow Grope In 1980s New Brighton – Sticky Nights At The Chelsea Reach

A Slow Grope In 1980s New Brighton – Sticky Nights At The Chelsea Reach

Tom Wood's brilliant photos of clubbers Looking for Love take us back to the 1980s ...
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Photos of a Desolate and Deserted London from 1977

Photos of a Desolate and Deserted London from 1977

These fascinating photos were taken by John Goodman an Australian who made two trips to UK in the mid 1970s. ...
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Students At A One-Room School in Ojo Sarco, New Mexico – 1943

Students At A One-Room School in Ojo Sarco, New Mexico – 1943

The two men squatting in a ditch, the little fire, the side - meat stewing ...
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“Fun-Maker” Pauline Fordham and her Swinging Sixties Boutique in Soho, 1966

“Fun-Maker” Pauline Fordham and her Swinging Sixties Boutique in Soho, 1966

Palisades was opened by Pauline Fordham on Ganton Street, just off Carnaby Street and the self-styled “Fun-Maker”, as the Daily Express called her, opened the boutique with “a rousing party”. ...
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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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