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Drive-In Theater Memories: Vintage Ads & Marquees

Drive-In Theater Memories: Vintage Ads & Marquees

"Let's have a look back to the drive-in theater's glory days with these old newspaper ads and photographs of drive-in marquees." ...
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An Iranian Photographer’s Uncensored Look at The Islamic Revolution

An Iranian Photographer’s Uncensored Look at The Islamic Revolution

"I did not want to compromise on the images I wanted to show and frankly, I thought for many years that getting a permit to publish such a book was a near-impossible dream..." ...
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This Is A Journey Into Sound: A Look at Old-School Headphones

This Is A Journey Into Sound: A Look at Old-School Headphones

  The first true headphone was made in 1910, but for the next forty-plus years ...
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A Day Out In 1960s England With Tony Ray-Jones

A Day Out In 1960s England With Tony Ray-Jones

“Be more aware of composition Don’t take boring pictures Get in closer Watch camera shake Don’t shoot too much” - Tony-Ray Jones ...
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Artist Alexandra Dillon Paints Classic Portraits On Everyday Objects

Artist Alexandra Dillon Paints Classic Portraits On Everyday Objects

"In my current work, I paint on worn paintbrushes, many which have been donated by other artists." ...
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Sex And Punk Superstar Jordan Mooney Remembers The Beatles’ Rock ’N’ Roll

Sex And Punk Superstar Jordan Mooney Remembers The Beatles’ Rock ’N’ Roll

“He was a man full of wit and charm who always had an eye for new and exciting things. His special characteristics were kindness and forethought” Jordan Mooney, 2016 ...
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Pleasant Valley Living: A Look Inside a Mid-Century Home Magazine

Pleasant Valley Living: A Look Inside a Mid-Century Home Magazine

Let's have a look inside the October 1958 issue of Better Homes & Gardens and ...
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The Illuminated Moby-Dick: Artist Illustrates Every Page of Herman Melville’s Epic Book

The Illuminated Moby-Dick: Artist Illustrates Every Page of Herman Melville’s Epic Book

"I wanted a slow, intense pace through the book so I decided to create one illustration a day, every day, for every single one of the 552 pages of my Signet Classics paperback, and on August 4, 2009 I began" - Matt Kiss ...
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CREEM Profiles: One-Page Spotlights of 1970s-80s Musicians

CREEM Profiles: One-Page Spotlights of 1970s-80s Musicians

"I've seen the future of rock 'n' roll.  It's Kraftwerk.  Now leave me alone, pleeeez." - Bruce Springsteen ...
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Burlesque at the Chelsea Palace, and the Last Great Performance of Billie Holiday in 1959

Burlesque at the Chelsea Palace, and the Last Great Performance of Billie Holiday in 1959

A gaunt and very unsteady Billie Holiday was helped up on stage and performed three songs for a television show called Chelsea at Nine. ...
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James Castle: The Artist Who Showed Us An America Hard To See

James Castle: The Artist Who Showed Us An America Hard To See

"If you do not expect it, you will not find out the unexpected" - Heraclitus ...
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The Muppets’ Dr Teeth And The Electric Mayhem Tour Posters

The Muppets’ Dr Teeth And The Electric Mayhem Tour Posters

"I’m gonna light some dynamite, and blow open your heart … I am gonna explode an atom bomb, and blow a hole in your soul." ...
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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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