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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 ...0Post Views: 21,525The 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 ...0Post Views: 21,519Fabulous Photographs of Cruising Van Nuys Boulevard In 1972
Rick McCloskey's fabulous photographs of a vanished Californian youth culture ...0Post Views: 16,800Bloody 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. ...0Post Views: 86,747Too 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." ...0Post Views: 4,152Dirty 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.” ...0Post Views: 33,552‘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.’ ...0Post Views: 20,298The Anarchy Tour of 1976
Ray Stevenson's Extraordinary Photos of the Clash and the Sex Pistols... ...0Post Views: 11,744Collect our postcards