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Listen To Nine-Year-Old Sly Stone Sing Gospel With His Family In 1952

Listen To Nine-Year-Old Sly Stone Sing Gospel With His Family In 1952

  On the day Sly Stone (born March 15, 1943) marks his birthday, we look ...
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Touching The Mid-Century Dream In Pierre Koening’s Stahl House

Touching The Mid-Century Dream In Pierre Koening’s Stahl House

  Case Study House #22, aka Stahl House, might be the ultimate mid-Century dream home. The ...
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Gorey Be Damned: Sticky Nightmares Drawn On Post It Notes

Gorey Be Damned: Sticky Nightmares Drawn On Post It Notes

'When I have time I draw Monster drawings on sticky notes. It's a little window into a different world made on office supplies' - John Kenn Mortensen  ...
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Photos Of A Typical Saturday Afternoon In London Ohio 1938

Photos Of A Typical Saturday Afternoon In London Ohio 1938

In 1938, Ben Shahn (1898-1969), a photographer with the Farm Security Administration, took a Saturday ...
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It Can Happen Here: Four Times Authors and Artists Warned Us about Fascism in America

It Can Happen Here: Four Times Authors and Artists Warned Us about Fascism in America

  To define it simply, fascism is a brand of authoritarianism in which a dictator ...
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Dr Reed Bontecou’s Stunning Pictures Of Wounded Civil War Veterans

Dr Reed Bontecou’s Stunning Pictures Of Wounded Civil War Veterans

How do we see war veterans of war? In the US Civil War (1861-1865) Dr ...
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What Sort of Man Reads Playboy? Ads from 1958-1974

What Sort of Man Reads Playboy? Ads from 1958-1974

At it's height in 1972 Playboy magazine had a circulation of over 7 million copies ...
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Jack Kerouac’s 39 Rules for Writing Prose

Jack Kerouac’s 39 Rules for Writing Prose

  Don't fret. It took Jack Kerouac all of three weeks to write On the ...
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Joseph Faber’s Freakish Talking Head Haunts Uncanny Valley In 1846

Joseph Faber’s Freakish Talking Head Haunts Uncanny Valley In 1846

  In August 1846, Joseph Faber, a German-born scientist and mathematician, stood in London's Egyptian Hall. Punters ...
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Stacked: Outstanding Photos Of Post-War Berlin Housing Estates

Stacked: Outstanding Photos Of Post-War Berlin Housing Estates

  In Stacked, Copenhagen-based photographer Malte Brandenburg discovers a surprising lack of conformity amongst post-war housing estates ...
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21 Swedish Posters For 1930s Hollywood Movies

21 Swedish Posters For 1930s Hollywood Movies

These Swedish posters of Hollywood films feature work by designers Eric Rohman, Gösta Åberg and ...
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Sybille II: Watch An Artist’s Tribute To Zits Erupting Like Creatures In A Jacques Cousteau Film

Sybille II: Watch An Artist’s Tribute To Zits Erupting Like Creatures In A Jacques Cousteau Film

  In 1999, Wim Delvoye released the experimental art film Sybille II, in which he captured shots ...
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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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