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Irving Klaw: The Pin-Up King and Fetish Pioneer of 14th Street
Before Bettie Page became a cultural icon one New York photo dealer quietly changed visual history. The rise fall and revival of Irving Klaw and Movie Star News.


Roberto Donetta: The Forgotten Photographer of Swiss Village Life
Roberto Donetta wandered the Swiss Alps with his camera, capturing the beauty, hardship, and spirit of village life in the early 1900s. Once forgotten, his hauntingly human portraits are now celebrated as treasures of Swiss photography.


Why Were Victorian Christmas Cards So Creepy? An Unsettling Look at Festive Greetings of Yesteryear
If you’ve ever rummaged through a box of old postcards or found yourself squinting at an antique Christmas card, you may have noticed something… peculiar. Where you might expect jolly Santas, twinkling trees, and cute robins, you instead find frogs brandishing sticks, insects pulling children in carts, and dead birds. Yes, dead birds. Victorian Christmas cards were, by modern standards, downright bizarre. Sometimes they were unsettling, occasionally grotesque, and frequently
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