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Norma Jean, Not Marilyn

“For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that’s—she did Marilyn Monroe. The white wine helped things along. Then there was the inevitable drop … she sat in the corner like a child, with everything gone. I wouldn’t photograph her without her knowledge of it. And as I came with the camera, I saw…

An Unknown Bob Dylan & friends at Summer Festivals of the 1960s

While thousands storm the famous muddy fields of Glastonbury for its annual music festival this week, why don’t we turn back the clock to the summertime festivals gone by, when Bob Dylan’s words weren’t yet American anthems, hipster was just another name for a jazz musician and the music seemed to have just a little…

The Sole Resident of the World’s Largest Abandoned Building & other Tales

Earlier today, we met the “castaway collector” at his mind boggling apartment in Brooklyn. But I just couldn’t stop there without showing you the rest of this fantastic series This Must Be the Place from Lost & Found films. Collaborators with names like  VICE magazine, NY Times and Nike, the film production company, founded by Ben Wu…

Preserved Moments of Historical Sass (Vol.1)

I came across the fantastic photograph below and knew there had to be more preserved sassy moments out there, so I went looking, which resulted in this little post dedicated to preserved moments of historical sass! Submitted by Lisa Warninger to The Sartorialist: ‘The sassy woman in the saddle shoes is my grandma Lois. This…

The First Chanel Boutique: A Short Film by Karl Lagerfeld

Apparently Keira Knightley and her co-stars improvised their way through this thirteen minute short, making their lines up as they went along. The film celebrates 100 years for the French luxury brand, looking back at Coco’s first pret-a-porter shop in Deauville that was financed by her lover at the time, Arthur ‘Boy’ Capel. I’m not…

In Memory of the Real-Life Marge Simpson

Matt Groening is the American cartoonist behind the successful television series, The Simpsons. A recent article in a Portland, Oregon obituary for a certain Margaret Ruth Groening has revealed a few familiar names, including her husband Homer and her children, Matt, Lisa and Maggie. via Reddit ::: YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: .

Hepburn in 1960s Paris

The other night I tucked myself up in bed and watched Funny Face, the 1957 Gershwin musical starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. New-York fashion photographer, played by Astaire, sets out to find a “new face” for the high fashion magazine Quality and soon enough discovers Audrey Hepburn working as a bookstore clerk in Greenwich village,…

Lady vs Skinhead

A woman hitting a skinhead with her handbag, Sweden, 1985. The woman was reportedly a concentration camp survivor. Via imgur ::: YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: .

American Cowgirls of the 1940s

This post is pretty much the result of me getting lost in the LIFE magazine archives again and coming across a bunch of mostly unpublished photographs of cowgirls that were too good not to share. These snaps are a melange of photo stories by LIFE photographers, Nina Leen, Peter Stackpole and Cornell Capa between 1947-48 at the…

20 Rare Photographs of Oscar Winners as You’ve Never Seem Them

Oscar night is here and over the next few days we’re going to be inundated with photographs of the most recognizable faces. So how about a few that perhaps we don’t recognize… 1. Charlie Chaplin Honorary award for Circus in 1928, Honorary lifetime achievement award in 1972 and Best original Score for Limelight in 1973.…
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