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Jim Clark, the racing legend
He won two F1 world titles in 1963 and 1965. Considered one of the best drivers of all time, he won 25 of his 72 starts in F1 while...
Jan 17
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Gloria Grahame, the Queen of Noir
The statuary Gloria Grahame is often featured in film noir pictures as a tarnished beauty with an irresistible sexual allure . During...
Nov 18, 2024
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Meet Madame Inès Decourcelle "La Femme Chauffeur".
Madame Decourcelle is believed to be the first to receive her full taxi licence in April 1908, making her the first woman in history to...
Aug 16, 2024
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The out-of-ordinary legacy of Italian artist Ezio Anichini
Ezio Tiburzio Anichini (Florence, 24 April 1886 – Florence, 23 September 1948) was an Italian illustrator whose expansive career bridged...
Feb 6, 2024
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Isa Bluette, the forgotten Starlet of the Roaring Twenties.
There is something both mythical and magical about Turin. The city is located at the intersection point between two triangles, that of...
Oct 17, 2023
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Grandma's signature perfume.
Because grandma' scents deserve a second chance. I love powdery scents, they are my absolutely favourite. When thinking of a powdery...
Aug 23, 2023
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Jeanne Paquin, the forgotten seamstress
She was considered as the leading Paris dressmaker and influential in couture business. She was the first major female fashion designer...
Jun 7, 2023
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"Wild Bob" Burman, the man of records
He was called Bob the Wild for a reason... he has been an open-wheel pioneer, setting numerous speed and victory standards in the early...
Feb 16, 2023
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Vivian Maier: the nanny photographer who lived twice
While working as a nanny, she took 150,000 photographs. She lived in absolute anonymity and only became famous and exhibited around the...
Jan 24, 2023
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Imaging women of the future ... in 1902
What People in 1902 thought "women of the future" would look like. In 1902, French artist and manufacturer Albert Bergeret released a set...
Nov 22, 2022
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Tina Modotti, the activist behind the camera
The amazing and adventurous life of a model, Hollywood actress, photographer and politician activist. When I first read her biography I...
May 6, 2022
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Before Disney there was FELIX
F. - Hello Maggie, My name is Felix. I. - Hello Felix, nice to meet you. It's an honour to have you here. F. - And it's a pleasure for me...
Oct 27, 2021
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Three sisters with the passion for fashion
The successful story behind "Sorelle Fontana Atelier": from Rome to Hollywood and the beginning of the "Made in Italy" concept. Today, I...
Sep 16, 2021
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The seductive design of Art Deco posters
"An assertively modern style that ran to symmetry rather than asymmetry, and to the rectilinear rather than the curvilinear; it responded...
May 30, 2021
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100 years ago today: the first women’s Olympiad
The world’s first international sporting event for women took place in Monaco in 1921 The 1921 Women’s Olympiad was held in Monte Carlo...
Mar 30, 2021
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The Eye of the Century: Henri Cartier-Bresson
"To photograph is to put the head, the eye and the heart on the same line of sight" - Henri Cartier-Bresson From the late 1920s to the...
Feb 26, 2021
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A tribute to the “Cowboys of the Sky”
In one of my older posts I talked about the Barnstorming, a form of entertainment in which stunt pilots used to make the craziest things...
Jan 15, 2021
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METROPOLIS, 1927. The future was then
“One of the biggest, strangest, maddest films in cinema history” — THE GUARDIAN When I was 13 I loved spending the whole Saturday night...
Nov 17, 2020
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