Imagine sitting in a dingy consulting room sometime around 1900. You’ve come to see a doctor because your skin has erupted in angry sores, your joints ache unbearably, and there’s a constant buzzing in your ears. The diagnosis, whispered with discomfort, is syphilis. There is no easy cure, no guarantee of recovery, and the treatment itself might kill you faster than the disease. This was once the grim reality for millions. Long before the humble penicillin mould transformed

ROCKY (1978) by Edward Lutczyn If you’ve ever stood in a cinema queue staring at the same old posters — moody close-ups, explosions...

In 1936 and 1937, Picasso and a circle of surrealists gathered at the Hotel Vaste Horizon in Mougins. What followed was Guernica, a historic Harper's Bazaar cover, and some of the most important photography of the 20th century. The women did most of it.