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Inside Jayne Mansfield’s “Pink Palace,” the Graceland of Hollywood

Inside Jayne Mansfield’s “Pink Palace,” the Graceland of Hollywood

I didn't come to Hollywood to be the girl next door. I came to be a movie star... ...
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The Chance that Brought David Bowie to Nic Roeg for ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’

The Chance that Brought David Bowie to Nic Roeg for ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’

Roeg knew he had found the man to play the lead in his next film The Man Who Fell to Earth—the story of humanoid alien called Thomas Jerome Newton, who comes to this world in search of water. ...
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Len Speier’s New York City: Street Photography Without Questions

Len Speier’s New York City: Street Photography Without Questions

"If I see a good shot, I shoot and don’t ask questions; if a person sees that I am shooting, I won’t abandon the shot." ...
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50,000 Klan Members March on Washington, D.C. in 1925. 150,000 People Show Up to Watch

50,000 Klan Members March on Washington, D.C. in 1925. 150,000 People Show Up to Watch

Over 50,000 members in full regalia took over the streets of the U.S. capital city ...
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Anny Ondra, Alfred Hitchcock, a Nazi Heavyweight Boxer and the First Actress to the Bishop Joke

Anny Ondra, Alfred Hitchcock, a Nazi Heavyweight Boxer and the First Actress to the Bishop Joke

Some of the first words ever spoken on British film were uttered in a sound-test for Anny Ondra one of the stars in Blackmail and which featured a short conversation between Hitchcock and the Polish-Czech actress. ...
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Four Photographs of Toulouse-Lautrec Defecating On A Beach – 1898

Four Photographs of Toulouse-Lautrec Defecating On A Beach – 1898

In 1898, revolutionary French artist Toulouse-Letrec went to the toilet on a French beach. His friend took these four photographs ...
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“This is Your Hour” – The Party That Ended All Parties – British VE Day Celebrations

“This is Your Hour” – The Party That Ended All Parties – British VE Day Celebrations

My dear friends, this is your hour. This is not victory of a party or of any class. It’s a victory of the great British nation as a whole. We were the first, in this ancient island, to draw the sword against tyranny. After a while we were left all alone against the most tremendous military power that has been seen. - Churchill, 8 may 1945 ...
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The Great American Road Trip – In Mid-Century Kodachrome

The Great American Road Trip – In Mid-Century Kodachrome

  Time to go on a great American road trip. It's the trip Europeans love ...
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The First Automated Grocery Store Opens in 1937

The First Automated Grocery Store Opens in 1937

Keedoozle…. It sounds like the name of an Internet startup. The idea was intended to “disrupt” an entire industry, changing the way Americans do their shopping. ...
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“A Sense of Sex and the Night” – the History of Piccadilly Circus

“A Sense of Sex and the Night” – the History of Piccadilly Circus

A ‘centre of gaiety’ as one 1930s guide book put it, where thousands and thousands of people and almost as many cars ‘struggle in vain for freedom’. ...
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Robert Mitchum was a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

Robert Mitchum was a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

Robert Mitchum left home when he was fourteen. He didn't run away like he later claimed in TV interviews when he was more famous and the conversation needed a little spin to keep it going. His mother packed his suitcase and made him a sandwich for the journey. ...
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Buy Prints Eugene Atget – The Photographer who Walked Fin de Siècle Paris

Eugene Atget – The Photographer who Walked Fin de Siècle Paris

Atget (1857-1927) wandered the streets of Paris dressed in a large black cloak and floppy hat, his camera slung on its tripod over his shoulder. He drifted until something triggered a response which he stopped to photograph. ...
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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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