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Smile and Say “Sleaze”: Sex Sells in Vintage Camera Advertising

Smile and Say “Sleaze”: Sex Sells in Vintage Camera Advertising

In decades past, cameras were sold almost exclusively to men.  As might predict, this is ...
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Attack of the Hick Flick! Redneck Cinema Posters and VHS Box Art

Attack of the Hick Flick! Redneck Cinema Posters and VHS Box Art

Yee-haw! Let's have a look at those hard drinkin', truck drivin', moonshinin' movies from the ...
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‘Check With Owen Wilson’: Steely Dan’s Open Letter To Wes Anderson

‘Check With Owen Wilson’: Steely Dan’s Open Letter To Wes Anderson

  In 2006, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, aka Steely Dan, wrote an open letter ...
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One Performance Only: Sly Stone Marries Kathy Silva At Madison Square Garden (1974)

One Performance Only: Sly Stone Marries Kathy Silva At Madison Square Garden (1974)

On June 5, 1974, Kathy Silva (born November 25, 1948), mother of Sly Stone Jnr., ...
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Metallic Bras from Space! Sci-Fi Pulp Ladies & Their Shiny Metal Brassieres

Metallic Bras from Space! Sci-Fi Pulp Ladies & Their Shiny Metal Brassieres

For some reason, mid-century sci-fi pulp magazines always had their ladies wearing metallic bras.  Go figure. ...
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‘Welcome to Fear City’ – Raw and Gritty Snapshots of NYC From the Mid-Seventies

‘Welcome to Fear City’ – Raw and Gritty Snapshots of NYC From the Mid-Seventies

These photographs are from Andy Blair's great Flickr site. Where he had hundreds of extraordinary ...
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Existence Is Unhappiness: Graham Wood On 24 posters Inspired By 1968 Oz Magazine

Existence Is Unhappiness: Graham Wood On 24 posters Inspired By 1968 Oz Magazine

Best known as one of the founders of British design collective Tomato, Graham Wood chose ...
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The Glossary Handed To Audiences of David Lynch’s Dune (1984)

The Glossary Handed To Audiences of David Lynch’s Dune (1984)

In 1984, David Lynch distanced himself from his lurid, leaden $40million film adaptation of Frank Herbert's ...
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Testing Ejector Seats In The 1950s

Testing Ejector Seats In The 1950s

  These photographs were taken by Hugo Frederick Mohrlock, a graduate of Syracuse University, California ...
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Selling Harvest-Gold Shag: Carpet Ads from the 1960s-1970s

Selling Harvest-Gold Shag: Carpet Ads from the 1960s-1970s

Ah.  Floor covering ads are the best.  Stare in nostalgic wonder at the often tacky, ...
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Josie & the Pussycats Get Demonically Possessed in 1973

Josie & the Pussycats Get Demonically Possessed in 1973

A while back, I discovered an old Josie & the Pussycats dealing with satanic possession.  An odd ...
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NASA’s Future of Space Travel Posters In A Gorgeous Retro Style

NASA’s Future of Space Travel Posters In A Gorgeous Retro Style

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has created 14 Visions of the Future. In 1962, NASA began an Art ...
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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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