Pasts Archives - Ex-Plain

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Outsiders In The Cradle of Humanity: Joji Hashiguchi’s Street Photography Across Six Cities

In the summer of 1981, Japanese photographer Joji Hashiguchi left Tokyo on a self-directed journey through Liverpool, London, Nuremberg, West…

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During the Cold War, access to music in the Soviet Union was tightly restricted by state censorship. Despite the risks,…

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Founded in 2018, COMRADE Gallery has grown into one of the most compelling new archives of Eastern Bloc visual design.…

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Peter J Walsh was an eyewitness to one of the most transformative moments in modern British youth culture: the birth…

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Graffiti, one of the most pervasive aspects of spontaneous creativity in modern life has surprisingly simple stylistic origins, and while…

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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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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…