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ROGUES’ GALLERY REVISITED | SYDNEY POLICE ARCHIVES 1912-1948
“Some of the photographed documents are like open wounds. A hastily pencilled suicide note reads: ‘Goodbye earth, all is lost’. Another, apparently written in blood, says ‘Be prepared, you die soon’....
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THE STRANGE STORY OF ‘MIRACLE MIKE’ THE HEADLESS CHICKEN 1945
‘Miracle Mike’ with stand-in rooster head, 1945. Mike toured sideshows for 18 months after surviving a decapitation. Bob Landry, Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images. I’ve been getting a bit high-brow...
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JAZZ AND THE NAZIS IN PARIS 1940-1944
Getting the jazz. The “Degenerate Music” exhibition of the “Reich Music Festival”, Düsseldorf, 1938 © Ullstein Bild “Strictly prohibited is the use of instruments alien to the German spirit – so-called...
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A WALK THROUGH HELL’S KITCHEN | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF WEEGEE 1936-1946
Their first murder. To Francis. Weegee 1946 © Weegee “For ten years straight, the New York-based tabloid news photographer slept days and took pictures at night of violent crime and murders, fires, car...
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