We now see what happened next, when the cars died and were hauled off to the breakers yards in 1990s London.

Clive Murphy takes us back to Spitalfields, East London in the 1980s. Clive took snapshots a he walked around Brick Lane

Burt Reynolds and Warren Beatty came close, but in the end, that title went to The Six Million Dollar Man and Fall Guy, Harvey Lee Yeary, AKA Lee Majors

“At some point all of these cast off photos meant something to someone” – Dan Barry     In 1994, a fresh-faced young man was in Los Angeles. Over the next several years he managed to get his photo tak...

Joseph Ducreux’s ‘Self-Portrait in the Guise of a Mockingbird’ is a Neoclassical oil on canvas painting from 1791. You can see this study of physiognomy and expression at the Musée du Louvre in Paris,...

These illustration plates (lithographs) are from The Book of Wonderful Characters: Memoirs and Anecdotes of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all Ages and Countries

These brilliant photos were taken by Hans Joachim Jacobi and scanned by his son Michael. They travelled to NYC as a stopover on the way to and from Halifax in Nova Scotia to visit relatives. Hans was ...

About ten thousand years after some nomadic Paleo-Indians arrived in Las Vegas and left behind some petroglyphs, Las Vegas was founded as a city in 1905. 110 acres of land next to the Union Pacific Ra...

In Cruise Night, LA-based photographer Kristin Bedford shows members of the city's local lowrider community

The book was issued as part one of a groovy 4-book series: Peace, Love, Thought, and God, all filled with Max's lush images.

Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi was banned after only two performances (one of which was the dress rehearsal). It really was that good.

Gordon Parks is celebrated in an exhibition at New York's Jack Shainman Gallery. Voices in the Mirror revisits his work.

Our 100% organic cotton t-shirt. This Fair Trade t-shirt has been awarded the Eve Vegan and G.O.T.S labels. ·      No pesticides, insecticides or GMOs used ·      Ecological dyeing ·      Decent worki...

Gordon Parks is celebrated in an exhibition at New York's Jack Shainman Gallery. Voices in the Mirror revisits his work.

These pictures of 19th century French tattoos are from the journal Crocodile, a bi-monthly bulletin of the medical internship of Lyon.

Stardust, Fantomah, Big Red McLane and Space Smith. Just some of the superheroes created by American cartoonist Fletcher Hanks (December 1, 1889 - January 22, 1976) in a two-year flurry of creativity ...

Working as an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), Lewis Hine (1874-1940) documented working and living conditions of children in the United States between 1908 an...

We present more faces from Mark McEvoy's brilliant album of late-night life on the city's Underground trains.

Britain between the wars was uncertain, disillusioned and nostalgic. Cyril Power (17 December 1872 – 25 May 1951) captured the mood in the 1920s and 1930s through art. An architect and historian of me...

In the 1930s the British high-street store W.H.Smith & Son operated a vast commercial empire. Originally formed by Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna in 1792 as a news vendor in London the company b...

In the 1990s, Mark McEvoy took portraits of lovers and freinds – when people still had to rush to make the final train

For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that I love – New York City,” she says. ” On a good day, I move with the rhythms of the city and feel con...

Found Photos: Snapshots of Staff at a London Westminster Bank c.1960

Alien Sex Fiend played at Camden Palace on February 13, 1990, as part of the venue’s Feet First indie nights. Posters advertising the show went up around the area in other parts of London, featuring t...

Thanks to Dylan Sharp we get to know Jack Sharp (1928-1992), his grandfather. Jack was born in Harrold, a village in Bedfordshire, England. In 1955 he took a job as an engineer at the European Organiz...

“You had everything from your Mustangs to lowriders and hot rods. Essentially you were out there to see your friends, show off your car and just sort of be there. It was the place for young people to ...

“We lay in wet heather for hours at a stretch, tramped many weary miles in the dark, and spent nights in the open air on lonely islands … we have endured the torturing stings of insects, waited for da...

Walter Molino (5 November 1915 – 8 December 1997) was an Italian comics artist and illustrator. His speciality was disaster, which often involved fire, water, falling – falling from (deep breath) clif...

Dr John Brinkley and his goat testicles could cure your virility, flatulence,  emphysema and female infertility

“My dad was an amateur photographer back then,” write Trina Ferris, a native of Kalamazoo, Michigan. “He has hundreds of pictures of us. I got these from him because I am an urban explorer and went to...

In his 1977 Series Hard Times Come to Steeltown, Stephen Shore shows us the decline and desolation of factory towns across the Midwest.

“Au mois de mai, fais ce qu’il te plait” (In the month of May, do whatever you like)       These posters, flyers and hand-outs were made by Marxist group The Atelier Populaire, who occupied the lithog...

This collection of found photos is called 'Anguish, Affliction and Alienation in Photography'. And it is beautiful

“This is the longest diary I ever kept. Not a diary of course but an attempt to map the actual working days and hours of a novel. If a day is skipped it will show glaringly on this record and there wi...

Original script notes and behind the scenes photos of the Rocky Horror Show from director Jim Sharman's diaries

In 1980, Fantasy Trade Card Company released a set of trading cards for The Rocky Horror Picture Show. There was a total of 60 photo cards to collect. These were sold in packets of six. The first card...

The Len Deighton Action Cookbook (1965) began life as cookery strips (aka 'cookstrips') when Leighton was a student at London's  Royal Academy and St Martin's art school. Aimed at "an audience of men ...

Dolly Parton was one of the most talented performers who has ever lived. In 1978, Dolly explained it all...

In Photography, we see Kenneth Van Sickle‘s favourite black and white photographs taken in various places around the world

You can see work by Lanny Sommese (1943-2022) at the Library of Congress. we look at the American graphic designer's posters and teaching

On the streets of Manhattan's's Upper West Side in the 1980s and 1980s with photographer Stephen Harmon and his fabulous archive of images

Ursus Wehrli, a Swiss comedian and experimental artist, puts things in order. In his ‘Tidying Up Art’ series, he rearranges paintings by artists like Jasper Johns, Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee into blo...

The art was in fact small, elitist, and already flooded with artists from the previous generation when Collaborative Projects Inc was born

John Belushi formed his first band, the Ravens, in 1965 in his Chicago hometown, playing drums and singing. They released one single, then folded, and he went on to focus on comedy. In hindsight, he m...

A trip to to the British seaside in the company of the Seaside: Photographed exhibition at the Turner Contemporary in Margate, Kent. Off we go in search of fun at seaside. Do remember to write.   And ...

In the 1970s, Dutch photographer Gijsbert Hanekroot was up close and personal with rock gods and music legends.

Corrance was working for the Scottish tourist board when he took pictures of Glasgow in the 1970s and 1980s

Hector Mosko collects vintage baggies - those neat drugs dealers' bags from NYC. LSD tab sheets, baggies are not as needed as they once were.

The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts ...

Young Bobby Watson is hogging the Party Line in a cautionary tale told by Bell Telephone Systems Comics in 1946