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Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime Richard Klein, Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of Diacritics, q...
Robert Mallet-Stevens Creates the Ideal City in 32 Visions, 1922
“A new civilization, a new science, new needs, new materials required new forms.” – Robert Mallet-Stevens In 1924, French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 ...
These Photos From Over 100 Years Ago Show Us Paris in Colour
Albert Kahn meant his Les Archives de la Planète (Archives of the Planet) to provide a snapshot of the world. ‘I want to use these techniques on a grand scale,” he said, “to capture defin...
Rotterdam 1991 – Manchester on Tour
“In the weeks leading up to the final the Manchester Press was full of negative stories regarding hooligan threats, fan violence, heavy police crackdown, bans on public transport (even the f...
Signs of The Times: Photographs of Roadside America by Jim Dow (1967-1977)
Jim Dow (b. 1942) studied with Harry Callahan, Walker Evans and Minor White, all masters of black and white photography. With that pedigree you already get a hint of his style and subject ma...
Skins, Mods, Punks and Rude Boys in Tribal London – 1979-1981
In November 1979, French photographer Yan Morvan arrived in London from Paris, where he’d been photographing street gangs in the city’s brutalist suburbs. He trained his camera on Britain�...
Weird Islands – A Journey Through The Art Nouveau Fantasy World Of Belgian Artist Jean de Bosschère – 1921
Mad Art Nouveau fantasy illustrations by the Belgian artist, Jean de Bosschère (5 July 1878 – 17 January 1953) , from his 1921 book, ‘Weird Islands’. The monstrous and macabre creatures dr...
Jamie Reid: Sticking It To Her Majesty With The Art of Subversion
“”We couldn’t really afford things like Letraset, so it seemed natural to cut things out and do collage, to save money” – Jamie Reid British artist Jamie Reid (1947-2023), best kn...
The Song Change That Got Elvis Costello Banned From Saturday Night Live – 1977
An appearance on TV show Saturday Night Live has been a career defining moment for a number of musicians. Sinead O’Connor famously ripped up a photograph of the Pope to draw attention to abuse ...
Manchester In Colour – Life in The Slums in the 1960s
“We lived in an area of Manchester known as the slums, but we weren’t really aware of that as children. We were always clean and tidy, and we had plenty to eat. We didn’t feel as though we ...
35 Colour Photographs of Mid-Century Canada Looking Fabulous
Slim Aarons, the American photographer who made his career out of what he called “photographing attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places” didn’t take any of these colo...
The Battle of the Beanfield – 1 June 1985
“It seemed somehow more shocking because this was a Saturday afternoon in the Wiltshire countryside. You understood this might happen behind the Iron Curtain, but in England? In Wiltshire? On a...