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Morton Bartlett’s Family of Homemade Children (1926-1963)

Morton Bartlett’s Family of Homemade Children (1926-1963)

'Painted plaster skin turns supple and dewy through his watchful viewfinder' ...
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A Soldier’s Color Slides of Korea and Japan in 1954

A Soldier’s Color Slides of Korea and Japan in 1954

Photos of life, lust and love in the 24th Infantry Division - Korea 1954 ...
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Photographs of the Rootworks Lesbian Commune (1970s)

Photographs of the Rootworks Lesbian Commune (1970s)

“The philosophy was that we would live without men, separate from the patriarchal world” - Ruth Mountaingrove ...
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John Steinbeck’s Letter Asking Marilyn Monroe for Her Autograph (1955)

John Steinbeck’s Letter Asking Marilyn Monroe for Her Autograph (1955)

"Dear Marilyn, In my whole experience I have never known anyone to ask for an autograph for himself..." ...
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A Sunny Sea of Denim at the Watkins Glen Summer Jam in 1973

A Sunny Sea of Denim at the Watkins Glen Summer Jam in 1973

On a hot summer day in July 1973 at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Raceway in New York about 600,000 rock fans turned up to see the Allman Brothers Band, the Grateful Dead and The Band perform. ...
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Maria, Me And Zen Archery: Lee Friedlander’s Family Album

Maria, Me And Zen Archery: Lee Friedlander’s Family Album

"There’s so much information in a picture that often I don’t see until the fifth reading or 30 years later" - Lee Friedlander ...
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‘Home to Meet God’ – 1960s Florida in Kodachrome

‘Home to Meet God’ – 1960s Florida in Kodachrome

Gorgeous images from vacations in the Sunshine State ...
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Intercontinental Dance Floor Dives: A Euro Disco Dynamite Primer

Intercontinental Dance Floor Dives: A Euro Disco Dynamite Primer

WHEN disco hit its stride in the mid to late Seventies, it transcended language and boundaries. Perhaps, the secret of its success was that the criterion was so damn simple:  Can you dance to it?  If the answer was “yes”, chances are, you have a disco hit on your hands. ...
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1940s Florida in the Glorious Colors of Kodachrome

1940s Florida in the Glorious Colors of Kodachrome

The 1940s weren't all shades of brown, ravaged by war, shaped by fear and filmed in black and white. In Florida, USA, there were holidays in the glorious colors of Kodachrome. ...
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In the Minute With Ivan Kyncl: Photographer Captures The Spirit of Theatre

In the Minute With Ivan Kyncl: Photographer Captures The Spirit of Theatre

Photographs by Ivan Kyncl capture the essence, atmosphere and emotion of a theatrical production ...
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FAC 235: The New Order Blue Monday Flipbook (1988)

FAC 235: The New Order Blue Monday Flipbook (1988)

Get a load of this Factory Records-issued flipbook for New Order's 'Blue Monday' ...
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Shiny Big Boots and Smoking in the Bath: Wonderful Photos of the 1939  FA Cup

Shiny Big Boots and Smoking in the Bath: Wonderful Photos of the 1939 FA Cup

On the 29 April 1939, four months before the start of WW2, Portsmouth beat the favourites Wolverhampton Wanderers 4-1 in the FA Cup Final. Subsequently, because of the war, the tournament was not held again until 1946. ...
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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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