Ex-Plain, Author at Ex-Plain

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Richard Avedon’s In the American West: A Portrait Series That Turned Its Lens from Glamour to Grit

In 1985, when Richard Avedon's In the American West debuted, it didn’t just surprise people, it unsettled them. Avedon, the…

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The internet is full of photos from the 90's and early 2000's when competitive multiplayer gaming was a niche hobby…

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Big-name endorsements and sharp visual design from the classic era of Sunn amplifiers.

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For nearly two decades, a Helsinki-based photographer with an eye for street style has been capturing the Finnish capital's best-dressed…

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Forget Japan—This small Baltic country is possibly the true master of surreal and weird animation, here are the films that…

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Across the history of Renaissance Art, the mysterious Dutch printmaker Hercules Seghers is perhaps the most innovative–and relatively unknown.

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A new auction unearths classic works from Raymond Pettibon, frequent Black Flag collaborator and the foremost artist of the Southern…

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A revealing glance by one Spanish photographer into the halcyon early days of the Ibizan clubbing and party scene, where…

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Avant-garde surrealism and comic books come together in a little-known early graphic novel created by visionary artist Martin Vaughn-James.

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Rediscovered photos of the renegade pool skating phenomenon of 70s Southern California captured by Craig Fineman.