Some photographers just take pictures. Horace Roye smuggled diamonds in South Africa, castrated sheep with his own teeth, ran with Oswald Mosley's fascists and the Communist Party on alternate nights, and put the first nude photograph ever published in a British national newspaper on the front of the Daily Mirror. He beat two separate obscenity prosecutions, invented a 3D nude photography process, was friends with the man who claimed to have found a supposedly cursed Mayan cr

In January 1943, Warner Bros. released a seven-minute cartoon built around a swing band, a jitterbugging prince and an almost entirely Black voice cast, and it still divides the very people who study cartoons for a living. Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs gets ranked among the best animated shorts ever made by the animators who worked in that era. It's also been formally banned from American television since 1968. Both things are true, and neither cancels the other out. Quick

In 1913, a Milwaukee housewife named Dolly Oesterreich answered her front door in nothing but stockings and a silk robe, greeted the 17-year-old repairman her husband had sent to fix her sewing machine, and started an affair that would eventually see him move into her attic full time. He lived there, on and off, for roughly a decade, fed and supplied with library books by the woman he called his sole reason for living, while her husband complained for years about strange nois