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Camera Comics: A Short-Lived Rarity From The 1940s

Camera Comics: A Short-Lived Rarity From The 1940s

A true comics rarity, only nine issues of Camera Comics were ever published by U. ...
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The Unwilling Tourist: Adolf Hoffmeister’s 1941 Guide To Being A Refugee

The Unwilling Tourist: Adolf Hoffmeister’s 1941 Guide To Being A Refugee

“I have nothing very nice to say about myself, but one thing I know, on ...
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An Evil Genius Of Inventive Malice: John Deakin Under The Influence In Soho

An Evil Genius Of Inventive Malice: John Deakin Under The Influence In Soho

  “The second nastiest little man I have ever met” – Barbara Hutton "An evil ...
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It Pushes You to Your Limit: Remembering Computer Perfection (1979)

It Pushes You to Your Limit: Remembering Computer Perfection (1979)

Lakeside's Electronic Perfection was billed in 1979 as "the ultimate playmate" and the same advertising ...
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USA vs. Bikers, Commies, & Savages! A Fun-Filled Look at Action Mag Xenophobia

USA vs. Bikers, Commies, & Savages! A Fun-Filled Look at Action Mag Xenophobia

We're all familiar with the "When Animals Attack" trope of the vintage action magazine.  However, ...
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Edward Bawden: Life In An English Village, 1949

Edward Bawden: Life In An English Village, 1949

Edward Bawden (1903–1989) drew these delightful lithographs of his home village of Great Bardfield in Essex. Life ...
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The Southern Comfort Happy Hour Bar Guide from 1969

The Southern Comfort Happy Hour Bar Guide from 1969

The Happy Hour! The most popular way to entertain today! So said Southern Comfort who ...
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1960s Austin Gangsters: Nihilists with Cadillacs and Elvis Hair

1960s Austin Gangsters: Nihilists with Cadillacs and Elvis Hair

Over cocktails at Austin’s Townes Van Zandt Hotel I was captivated by writer Jesse Sublett’s ...
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Chris Spedding: A 1970s Unsung Style Hero

Chris Spedding: A 1970s Unsung Style Hero

  Guitarist Chris Spedding is one of the unsung heroes of Seventies style. I’ve been ...
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Gastro-Disasters: Spectacularly Appalling Food Adverts from Yesteryear

Gastro-Disasters: Spectacularly Appalling Food Adverts from Yesteryear

  Mmm-mm. Dee-lish!  They sure knew how to make a meat paste look tasty back ...
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Life Is Elsewhere: Abandoned Schools In The Irish Countryside

Life Is Elsewhere: Abandoned Schools In The Irish Countryside

Cork-based Enda O’Flaherty's photographs of abandoned schools in Ireland are haunting, colorful, eerie and make ...
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Glove Puppets The Buddha of Bauhaus Paul Klee Made For His Son Felix

Glove Puppets The Buddha of Bauhaus Paul Klee Made For His Son Felix

Paul Klee (1879-1940), aka 'Buddha of the Bauhaus', made eight glove puppets for his son Felix’s ninth ...
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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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