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Bernardo Bellotto and the reconstruction of Warsaw

This article by Philip McCouat explains how a lost cache of 18th century artiworks by Bernardo Bellotto became the blueprint for the post-war reconstruction of Warsaw

“Beyond Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration Photographers Document the Great Depression”, by Rick Halpern

The 1930s were a formative period for documentary photography in the United States. The twin phenomena of the Great Depression and President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal gave photographers a surfeit…

Ravenous: Celebrating 25 years of the cult horror comedy

25 years since its financially unsuccessful release, Antonia Bird’s Ravenous has quietly amassed critical acclaim and passionate fans. Writer Ted Griffin and the film’s original director Milcho Manchevski talked to us in 2019 about the film’s genesis and rocky production.

What The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Looked Like 77 Years Ago

Amateur snapshot photographs of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade taken from Broadway and 92nd Street in 1936

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17 photos revealing all the horror and stamina of the Soviet 1920s

During the tortuous 1920s the newborn Soviet state suffered from civil war, uprisings, intervention, famine and economic crisis. On the other hand,...