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TOP 50 legendary LIFE magazine photographs

By Andrew Piper
October 5, 2020
7 Mins read

The LIFE magazine archive counts millions of excellent pictures. Oldpics attempted to select the best 50 of them. LIFE magazine always managed…

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Stories

Winston Churchill as an artist and his other leisure pictures

By Andrew Piper
October 1, 2020
2 Mins read

Everybody remembers Winston Churchill as an iron prime-minister from the picture of Yusuf Karsh. This photo is undoubtfully the best-known Prime minister’s…

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ArtStories

15 best LIFE magazine covers

By Anna Ramirez
September 30, 2020
2 Mins read

Oldpics continues to be of the view that almost all pictures from LIFE Magazine covers are iconic. Here’s why we selected photos…

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ArtStories

64 Amazing photos by Alfred Eisenstaedt

By Anna Ramirez
September 29, 2020
6 Mins read

Alfred Eisenstaedt photos are an integral part of the history of photojournalism. He captured informal portraits of kings, dictators, scientists, athletes, and…

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ArtCitiesStories

1950s Paris Nightlife in pictures by Frank Horvat

By Andrew Piper
September 28, 2020
4 Mins read

The frivolous nightlife of Paris of the 1950s (and other decades) always attracted brilliant photographers. Frank Horvat was one of them. In…

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ArtCities

44 amazing Vancouver pictures of the 1950s and 60s by Fred Herzog

By Andrew Piper
September 23, 2020
3 Mins read

Fred Herzog started taking pictures of Vancouver in the late 1950s when he moved to the city. He defined a key to…

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CitiesStories

Vintage pictures of the Soviet Moscow of the 1950s

By Andrew Piper
September 9, 2020
2 Mins read

Jacques Dupaquier was a French scientist, historian, and member of the Communist Party of France, and he visited Moscow in the 1950s….

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Photo of a day

The story of Rescue at Redding, 1953

By Andrew Piper
September 8, 2020
1 Mins read

Newspaper editors called this picture ‘Rescue at Redding’. Virginia Shaw wasn’t a professional photographer, but her image won the Pulitzer prize next…

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Stories

Thomas Fitzpatrick: he landed a plane twice on the streets of New York.

By Andrew Piper
September 7, 2020
2 Mins read

Both times it was a stolen plane that Thomas Fitzpatrick piloted on a drunk. The first incident happened on a warm September…

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Photo of a day

London - Calcutta: the longest bus route in history

By Andrew Piper
September 4, 2020
1 Mins read

This photo was taken on April 15, 1957, at Victoria Bus Station before the first trip on the longest ever bus route…

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