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Nov 22
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...
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Aug 16
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...
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Feb 6
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...
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Oct 17, 2023
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...
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Aug 23, 2023
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...
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Jun 7, 2023
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...
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Feb 16, 2023
"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...
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Jan 24, 2023
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...
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Nov 22, 2022
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...
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May 6, 2022
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...
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Oct 27, 2021
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...
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Sep 16, 2021
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...
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May 30, 2021
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...
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Mar 30, 2021
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...
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Feb 26, 2021
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...
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Jan 15, 2021
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...
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Nov 17, 2020
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...
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Sep 30, 2020
"L'Exposition Universelle de Paris, 1900"
I never underestimate the power of a picture when this can make me travel back in time, through my memories. Usually, this step back in...
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