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19th-Century Photographer Félix Nadar On How To Be Brilliant And Make Money From Art

19th-Century Photographer Félix Nadar On How To Be Brilliant And Make Money From Art

"In photography, like in all things, there are people who can see and others who ...
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Twenty-Five Men’s Fashion Ads in Playboy 1966-1977

Twenty-Five Men’s Fashion Ads in Playboy 1966-1977

In the 1960s and 1970s Playboy was one of the most popular men's magazines in ...
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Pictures Of London In 1967 by Libby Hall

Pictures Of London In 1967 by Libby Hall

Libby Hall's pictures of London feature one of my favourite photos to have appeared on ...
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Girls on Chairs: 50 Stunning Vintage Images of Seated Ladies

Girls on Chairs: 50 Stunning Vintage Images of Seated Ladies

"Girls on Chairs" doesn't have quite the same ring to it as the Duran Duran ...
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Iconographie Photographique de la Salpêtrière: The Physician and the Hysterical Women

Iconographie Photographique de la Salpêtrière: The Physician and the Hysterical Women

The Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière (1876-80) features the female patients of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot ...
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The Polyester Splendor of 1970s Men’s Fashion Advertising

The Polyester Splendor of 1970s Men’s Fashion Advertising

Do you think you have what it takes to endure a motherload of disco-era studs with ...
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Love at First Light: Romance in 1970s Cigarette Advertising

Love at First Light: Romance in 1970s Cigarette Advertising

The key to good advertising is to invoke a subliminal association.  So, when you look ...
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Photographer Reunites Street Subjects From 40 Years Ago For The Same Picture

Photographer Reunites Street Subjects From 40 Years Ago For The Same Picture

In the late 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, Chris Porsz took photographs of people in his ...
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Whatever Happened to the Picturegoer Cover ‘Stars’? 1958-1960

Whatever Happened to the Picturegoer Cover ‘Stars’? 1958-1960

On the whole the cover stars were chosen for their glamorous looks as opposed to any proven acting ability. ...
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Leonard Cohen’s Music From The American Laboratory: The Lost Democracy Verses Revisited

Leonard Cohen’s Music From The American Laboratory: The Lost Democracy Verses Revisited

In 1991 Leonard Cohen was in conversation with Paul Zollo. They were discussing Cohen's song Democracy from ...
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Fear and Self-Loathing in Romance Comics

Fear and Self-Loathing in Romance Comics

  Romance comic books of the 1950s-1970s were nothing if not predictable.  You could be ...
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American Royalty: Mid-Century Movie Stars in Crowns and Tiaras

American Royalty: Mid-Century Movie Stars in Crowns and Tiaras

  "Give me my robe. Put on my crown. I have immortal longings in me" ...
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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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