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Iman by Thierry Mugler for Thierry Mugler, ss 1986.

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The Blazing Sun (1954)

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دانه‌ی انجیر معابد (The Seed of the Sacred Fig)

2024, dir. Mohammad Rasoulof

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Sun Ra at Central Park Summer Stage at the Naumburg Bandshell, New York July 29 1989.

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Hair & MU test of Isabella Rossellini for Blue Velvet, 1986.

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Joe Strummer, The Clash, 1976. (NME)  (photo by Thomas Jarlvik) 

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This is not the time to be dismayed, this is punk rock time. This is what Joe Strummer trained you for. - Henry Rollins

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Primal Scream in Soho, London, summer 1987, photographed by Stephen Parker in front of an original Sex Pistols poster for a July '87 Record Mirror feature, most likely to promote the "Gentle Tuesday" single followed by their debut album "Sonic Flower Groove".

gigsinscotland.com: "…On its initial releases, Primal Scream were a group of '60s revivalists crafting hooky, guitar-driven pop songs. The band signed to Creation in 1985, and over the next year they released a pair of singles. However, the band didn't really take off until the middle of 1986, when Gillespie left the Mary Chain and guitarists Andrew Innes and Robert Young joined the band. "Velocity Girl," a rush of jangly guitars, was a B-side that wound up on NME's C-86 cassette compilation, a collection of underground pop groups that defined the U.K.'s mid-'80s indie pop scene. The band's debut, Sonic Flower Groove, fit into the C-86 sound. After the band rejected the initial version recorded with Stephen Street, they re-recorded it with Mayo Thompson, and the record was finally released in 1987 on Creation subsidiary Elevation…"

loudersound.com: "The first Primal Scream album was financed by major label money (…) Soon after the release, co-founder and guitarist Jim Beattie left the band and the psychedelics were traded for a darker mission. Interestingly, this early tone was adopted by dozens of indie contenders and the Stone Roses perfected it for the age of Madchester. Bobby Gillespie was elsewhere by then, determined to rock…"

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John Lydon masterfully photographed by Anton Corbijn in the summer of 1983, with the old New Yorker Hotel in the background.

In 1981, PiL decided to relocate from London to New York, where recording sessions for the band's 4th studio album took place between '82-'83. After Pete Jones and Keith Levene left, John Lydon remained the only founding member still in the band and with the exception of Martin Atkins, the line-up was largely unknown local New Jersey musicians hired for the shows.

In September 1983 PiL’s biggest UK hit single, ‘This Is Not A Love Song‘, is released, followed by their first actual UK and European tours.

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Ruth Negga photographed by Christian Cassiel for FT

“I think actors are perpetual children. You need to be because you need to have access to play. I think play is exceptionally important and I don’t understand why we have this idea of maturation as play-less. If I lost my humour or my need for humour, or my ability to laugh, I think I would expire.”

She's starring in Quiet Songs as a teenage character known only as “Boy”, struggling through adolescence. Based on the life story of its writer, director and composer Finn Beames, it features a string quartet, plus an armoury of swords which are used on and alongside the traditional instruments to create the score. @ Barbican’s Pit Theatre Oct 22-Nov 2

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Maggie Cheung

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ISABELLE ADJANI as Anna POSSESSION dir. Andrzej Żuławski, 1981

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Cheetah Chrome & Joe Strummer, two urban cowboys captured by Roberta Bayley on East 14th Street, NYC, back in March 1980, when cigarettes were 65c and the Clash played their third and final gig at the Palladium in just over a year.

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“Debbie is smoking pot in this shot of her and Joan. Lots and lots of weed was smoked in those days. I am also amused by the motel key on Joan’s jacket. According to legend, Runaway members were pulled over in London, then arrested for possession of hotel keys, the theory being that the girls would return to the hotels and rob them. Go figure.” - Chris Stein

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The Clash - Combat Rock cover shoot outtakes by Pennie Smith (1982)