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    The Unmistakable Style of Inge Morath, One of Magnum’s First Female Photographers

    The Unmistakable Style of Inge Morath, One of Magnum’s First Female Photographers

    The mannequins, following the show, Dior Show at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1954. Inge Morath may have frequently photographed...
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    Leonardo Da Vinci's To-Do List Will Put You To Shame

    Leonardo Da Vinci's To-Do List Will Put You To Shame

    Tucked away somewhere, maybe in a pocket notepad, scribbled on some paper in your wallet or buried in an obscure app you rarely use, is a...
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    Hieronymus Bosch Figurines: Collect Surreal Characters from Bosch’s Paintings

    Hieronymus Bosch Figurines: Collect Surreal Characters from Bosch’s Paintings

    Few painters have created as rich a world as Hieronymus Bosch did in The Garden of Earthly Delights. The late 15th- or early 16th-century...
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    Meryl Streep Photoshopped Onto Food

    Meryl Streep Photoshopped Onto Food

    Sometimes a gorgeous surreal idea is born, and this Instagram account is one of them.
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    Classical Figures Photoshopped into Modern-Day Italy

    Classical Figures Photoshopped into Modern-Day Italy

    Ukrainian artist Alexey Kondakov merges figures from classical oil paintings with photographic scenes of modern Naples.
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    The Make Up Of Song Genres

    The Make Up Of Song Genres

    Canadian illustrator John Atkinson reveals the anatomy of different styles of songs.
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    Ernst Haeckel’s Sublime Drawings of Flora and Fauna.

    Ernst Haeckel’s Sublime Drawings of Flora and Fauna.

    If you follow the ongoing beef many popular scientists have with philosophy, you’d be forgiven for thinking the two disciplines have...
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    The 1920's Aerial Photographs Of Alfred Buckham

    The 1920's Aerial Photographs Of Alfred Buckham

    Alfred Buckham's first ambition was to be a painter, but after seeing Turner's pictures in the National Gallery, he returned home and...
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    Surreal Animated Photos and Artworks by Nicolas Monterrat

    Surreal Animated Photos and Artworks by Nicolas Monterrat

    Illustrator and animator Nicolas Monterrat has brought his wild imagination to historical photographs and artworks that he sets in motion...
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    The First Photographs of Snowflakes: Microphotography of Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley.

    The First Photographs of Snowflakes: Microphotography of Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley.

    What kind of a blighted society turns the word “snowflake” into an insult?, I sometimes catch myself thinking, but then again, I’ve never...
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    13 Outlines of Various Countries – Funny Maps From The 1860s

    13 Outlines of Various Countries – Funny Maps From The 1860s

    Geographical fun: being humorous outlines of various countries, with an introduction and descriptive lines is a 1860s book compiled by...
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    363 Days Of Tea: Ruby Silvious Paints Beautiful Pictures On Old Tea Bags

    363 Days Of Tea: Ruby Silvious Paints Beautiful Pictures On Old Tea Bags

    “Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal” - Kakuzō Okakura New York-based...
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    19-Year-Old Student Uses Early Spy Camera to Take Candid Street Photos (Circa 1895)

    19-Year-Old Student Uses Early Spy Camera to Take Candid Street Photos (Circa 1895)

    We are generally accustomed to thinking of 19th century photography as quite static and rigid, and for much of its early history,...
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    Letterhead Designs Well Known People Used Throughout History

    Letterhead Designs Well Known People Used Throughout History

    We’ve all seen letterheads before—the text and design at the top of a letter—but we rarely stop to think about it. This roundup of famous...
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    Muppets With Human Eyes Still Haunt My Dreams

    Muppets With Human Eyes Still Haunt My Dreams

    Rewinding to around 13 years ago, a tumblr page with that title appeared and quickly got its fifteen minutes of fame. In this case, it...
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    Contact Sheets: Where The Magic And Chaos Of Photographs Comes Alive

    Contact Sheets: Where The Magic And Chaos Of Photographs Comes Alive

    From the D-Day landings and Tiananmen Square to Salvador Dalí’s flying-cat hijinks, contact sheets reveal the hidden secrets of...
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    The 1937 Great Ohio River Flood

    The 1937 Great Ohio River Flood

    The collection of photographs in Time magazine shows the impact of The Great Ohio River Flood of 1937 - and is particularly poignant in...
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    The Making Of Sgt Pepper

    The Making Of Sgt Pepper

    The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band may or may not still be the “greatest rock album of all time,” but it most certainly...
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    Say Hello To 'Starfish Hitler', The Weirdest Japanese TV Supervillain Of The 1970s

    Say Hello To 'Starfish Hitler', The Weirdest Japanese TV Supervillain Of The 1970s

    I admit that I’ve never seen it, but from every indication the 1974 Japanese TV series Kamen Rider X was bloody amazing. Kamen Rider...
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    Salvador Dalí And Walt Disney Cooked Up A Film Together. 70 Years On, You Can Now Watch It.

    Salvador Dalí And Walt Disney Cooked Up A Film Together. 70 Years On, You Can Now Watch It.

    In 1946, the Surrealist artist created a short film with Walt Disney that didn’t see the light of day for 58 years It’s difficult to...
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    Portrait Photos of Marilyn Monroe Taken by Cecil Beaton in 1956

    Portrait Photos of Marilyn Monroe Taken by Cecil Beaton in 1956

    Cecil Beaton had only one shoot with Marilyn Monroe, which took place at the Ambassador Hotel in New York in February 1956. The actress...
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    Gay Men Pose for Photos While Being Detained at a Police Station in Mexico City

    Gay Men Pose for Photos While Being Detained at a Police Station in Mexico City

    A set of pictures of Mexicans purportedly arrested for homosexuality in 1935. It belongs to the collection of the National Photo Library...
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    Nic Cage Losing His Shit - A Supercut

    Nic Cage Losing His Shit - A Supercut

    I've no idea how many Oscars Nic Cage must have, I think it's at least a gazillion. This acting TITAN has one trick that he applies to...
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    The Wonderful Symmetry of Wes Anderson’s Movies

    The Wonderful Symmetry of Wes Anderson’s Movies

    Video essayist Kogonada previously made some brilliant observations about the visual obsessions of some of cinema’s greatest formalists....
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