I LOVE this picture. Josephine Baker, a hero in so many ways, having a little giggle with a shy army lad in London during the war.

There is something about the combination of Sunset Blvd + Hollywood + nighttime + rain that makes for an irresistibly atmospheric combo. The photographer was standing on the southeast corner of Sunset and Vine, looking north past the NBC television studios in 1951.

Leeds, 1954, photo by Marc Riboud. Young French photographer on his first assignment for Picture Post.

It feels timely & appropriate to post this magnificent beast ... the ultimate vox pop! ✊️🫡🤜🤛

Paul Robeson and José Ferrer watching a softball game during a break from the Broadway production of Othello, 1943

'Stairway in the Blackout,' was painted in 1941 and though it might not be among David Foggie's best paintings, for atmosphere and surprise value, it is one of his most striking works during a period when he was travelling to London and Glasgow during the early years of WW2.

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jorna indian restaurant 1972 new road junction with mount terrace and towards whitechapel road

Instead of strands of hair dangling, escaping from a lock of poetry, we now find them among the rubble — the body in one place and the hair in another, trapped between two stones, forgotten like an abandoned church. Instead of a mother combing the hair of her little daughter,

Just now, Highgate Cemetery, squirrel slaking its thirst angelically

In praise of a mudflat twilight. Two Tree Island, Essex. #estuary

William Terris was the star of the Adelphi Theatre plays. But bit-part actor Richard Prince hated the matinee idol. We bring to life a story that haunts London’s West End in our Murder at the Theatre Podcast: tinyurl.com/56nnmbfp British Guild of Tourist Guides British Guild of Tourist Guides

Alma-Tadema’s portrait of Queen Victoria in four lines.

“Basically the trick is to keep them painting roundabouts, sticking up flags and hating foreigners so they don’t realise we are serving our rich donors.”

‘Hurry up and riot you bastards, I’ve got emergency powers to push through’

If you made a horror movie in which the bad guys sent flying robots to drop grenades on women and children taking refuge in tents, it would seem too comically evil to be believable. But that's what Israel is doing in real life, right now, every day.

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