objectification friday

The bois from Abercrombie & Fitch. Scrumptious!

how we ring in the new year

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answer to life, the universe and everything

= 42.

working out

Taken at a women's gym in New York City; 1910.

hollywood in winter

From top to bottom: Norma Shearer, Louise Brooks, Jayne Mansfield, Jane Russell, Grace Bradley, Eleanor White.

incognito

let me show you

My latest favorite vintage erotica.

hoola hoop sisters

Oklahoma city, Photographer unidentified, 1958

prism of life

cellophane showgirls

Yes. That is cellophane. And yes, those are spoons on her head.

i can get it for you wholesale

Barbara Streisand: in Kenya, with Louis Armstrong in Hello Dolly!, tub. (Photographer Steve Schapiro for 1,2)

travelling

What do you think? Travelling or traveling? You decide.

duality

Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.

murder in a tea cup

it snowed today

square america

We absolutely cannot get enough of Square America! Visit the gallery of vintage snapshots & vernacular photography brought back to life from the bottom of shoe boxes and flea markets.

bikini turns sixty

Micheline Bernardini wearing the first bikini, 1946

Did you know that the bikini turned sixty this year? And it still looks good! Vive le bikini!

the sex book

Madonna's infamous coffee table photo-book, simply called 'Sex', released on October 21, 1992. Madonna, already best-known for her controversial tendencies, broke all boundaries with this book - no other mainstream artist had revealed him- or herself in such ways before. All photographs were taken by Steven Meisel. (link)