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the PDP-1, manufactured by Ken Olsen's Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), can also credibly be called the first console gaming machine

the PDP-1, manufactured by Ken Olsen's Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), can also credibly be called the first console gaming machine

Martin van Maële drew erotica and in the La Grande Danse Macabre des Vifs, 1905, we see the best of his work.

Aubrey Beardsley’s artistic career began with schoolboy doodles in the margins of text books and ended in near poverty drawing erotica for private collectors. In between Beardsley was a phenomenon whose success burned bright and fast. It is difficult to grasp just how revolutionary and how utterly shocking this slight young man’s deceptively simple ink … Continue reading "Aubrey Beardsley’s Illustrations for Oscar Wilde’s ‘Salome’"

The photographer Eric Lusito has been looking at former Soviet scientific institutes after the Cold War ended.

Like most civil rights movements in the U.S., the gay rights movement began much earlier than popular histories tell us, dating at least as far back the early 1950s with the founding of the Mattachine Society. Named after medieval bards who wandered around challenging injustices, the society had some impressive early success, then fractured over … Continue reading "How the First Pride Parades Radicalized the Gay Rights Movement in the 1970s"

Like most civil rights movements in the U.S., the gay rights movement began much earlier than popular histories tell us, dating at least as far back the early 1950s with the founding of the Mattachine Society. Named after medieval bards who wandered around challenging injustices, the society had some impressive early success, then fractured over … Continue reading "How the First Pride Parades Radicalized the Gay Rights Movement in the 1970s"

Letters by Genesis P-Orridge to Canada's art collective General Idea (1969–1994) for mail art and FILE magazine

Letters by Genesis P-Orridge to Canada's art collective General Idea (1969–1994) for mail art and FILE magazine

Letters by Genesis P-Orridge to Canada's art collective General Idea (1969–1994) for mail art and FILE magazine

In The Haight-Ashbury Portraits, 1967-1968 during the end days of the Summer of Love, Elaine Mayes took a set of portraits of youth culture

Vivian Cherry was one of the first street photographers working in restless New York City, recording life she saw

Raymond Pettibon has created great cover art for Black Flag, Sonic Youth and a raft of other bands and singers

In this album of found photos of contortions and acrobatics, Robert E. Jackson shows us people bending both professionally and just for fun

1948: Naked Women Shock And Entertain Paris

Sy Kattelson's photos of people in NYC taken around 1948. The Bronx-born photographer would take his camera into Manhattan.