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Photographing The Brighton Bomb and Other News

Photographing The Brighton Bomb and Other News

John Downing was there when the IRA detonated a bomb to kill Margaret Thatcher and her Cabinet ...
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Counting to 12 with Pablo Neruda: How Keeping Quiet Leads Us To The Human Brotherhood

Counting to 12 with Pablo Neruda: How Keeping Quiet Leads Us To The Human Brotherhood

Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still. - Pablo Neruda, ...
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Philippe Halsman’s Fabulous Jump Portraits

Philippe Halsman’s Fabulous Jump Portraits

"When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears” ...
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‘I shall meet thee bravely’: Beethoven finds a reason to live at a moment of desperation

‘I shall meet thee bravely’: Beethoven finds a reason to live at a moment of desperation

When things are bad, and the problems of life seem almost insurmountable, I think of Beethoven, the great composer who was a mere twenty-eight when he started going deaf... ...
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The Night Tallulah Bankhead Met Gerald du Maurier in London in 1923

The Night Tallulah Bankhead Met Gerald du Maurier in London in 1923

There were a few people in the room including Daphne, Gerald’s 15 year old daughter, who after Tallulah had left turned to her father and said, “Daddy, that’s the most beautiful girl I ever saw in my life.” ...
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Inge Morath Photographs Saul Steinberg and his Brilliant Mask Parties

Inge Morath Photographs Saul Steinberg and his Brilliant Mask Parties

Saul Steinberg drew masks on brown paper bags and invited friends and guest to wear them. ...
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“It’s alright to be nude, but if it moves, it’s rude.” – The Extraordinary History of the Windmill Theatre

“It’s alright to be nude, but if it moves, it’s rude.” – The Extraordinary History of the Windmill Theatre

The World's press used the Windmill Theatre to symbolise London’s ‘Blitz Spirit’ often illustrated by similar stories of a naked young woman breaking the no-moving rule by either giving a V-sign or thumbing her nose at a nearby exploding bomb. ...
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American Prospects: Photographs Behind The Facade (1979-1983)

American Prospects: Photographs Behind The Facade (1979-1983)

Joel Sternfeld’s photographs show us America beyond the superficial ...
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When Blimps, Dirigibles and Airships Ruled the Sky

When Blimps, Dirigibles and Airships Ruled the Sky

Vintage snapshots from the collection of Robert E. Jackson of airships passing overhead ...
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How Medieval Artists Saw Elephants: Claws, Hooves, Trunks Like Trumpets, and Castles on Their Backs

How Medieval Artists Saw Elephants: Claws, Hooves, Trunks Like Trumpets, and Castles on Their Backs

The artists had apparently never seen elephants, but they featured prominently in bestiaries ...
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The Villagers: Life-Size Crocheted Figures by Liisa Hietanen

The Villagers: Life-Size Crocheted Figures by Liisa Hietanen

Knitting for men and action men has entertained us for some time. Whether it be ...
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The Ugliest Cars Ever Made? Carmakers Stray too Far from Basic Design Principles and Create Monsters

The Ugliest Cars Ever Made? Carmakers Stray too Far from Basic Design Principles and Create Monsters

Every once in a while a company with a conservative reputation will try something new, sometimes in imitation of their competitors. The results are frequently disastrous... ...
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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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