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80s Youth Culture in a Dying English Industrial Town
Between 1979 and 1989, photographer Christopher John Ball documented the people of Blackburn, the Lancashire industrial town that shaped his…
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Decades Ago, Pharmaceutical Drugs Were Advertised Using Fear, and It Wasn’t Subtle
In the postwar era, pharmaceutical print advertising, especially for psychiatric drugs, was blunt, graphic, and often disturbing, using fear and…
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How a Forgotten German Expressionist Painting Influenced Iggy Pop and David Bowie’s Berlin Era
Moving to West Berlin, David Bowie and Iggy Pop found unexpected inspiration in German Expressionism, most notably in the form…
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A City Dressing Itself: 90s London Fashion Through The Lens of Shoichi Aoki
Beginning the 80s, Japanese photographer Shoichi Aoki has quietly built one of the most revealing visual records of London street…
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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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X‑Rays You Can Hear: Soviet Bootleg Music’s Non-Clinical Birth, Death, and Rebirth
During the Cold War, access to music in the Soviet Union was tightly restricted by state censorship. Despite the risks,…
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Not Just Propaganda: Graphic Experimentation From the Other Side of the Curtain
Founded in 2018, COMRADE Gallery has grown into one of the most compelling new archives of Eastern Bloc visual design.…
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Documenting Euphoria: Peter J. Walsh’s RAVE ONE and the Rise of UK Rave Culture
Peter J Walsh was an eyewitness to one of the most transformative moments in modern British youth culture: the birth…
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The Tag That Changed New York: The Lasting Legacy of TAKI 183, Graffiti’s First Icon
Graffiti, one of the most pervasive aspects of spontaneous creativity in modern life has surprisingly simple stylistic origins, and while…
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Remembering the LAN Parties of Yesteryear
The internet is full of photos from the 90's and early 2000's when competitive multiplayer gaming was a niche hobby…