(Last update: 22 September 2020. 20 new photos added) Rock music history starts with these photos. All these rock bands became popular…
10 most expensive photographs in history
The most expensive photographs list is very different from The most important pictures, or even from Pulitzer Prize photos. Almost all of…
Falkland island minefield penguins, 1984
If the Falkland island penguins read the Minefield sign, they wouldn’t start this party here. Yes, it seems like PETA activists don’t…
Princess Diana dance surprised her husband, Prince Charles, the royal family, and even the paparazzi. All girls dream of becoming princesses. And…
Young Quentin Tarantino got his job in video rental in 1985. His office was near one of the main beaches in Los…
Pictures of Soviet Moscow by a British tourist
That’s how Moscow, a Soviet capital, looked like before the USSR collapsed. In 1986, Roger George Clark, a casual photographer from the…
Gorbachev and Reagan negotiations, Geneva, 1985
The meeting of Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in Geneva in 1985 was long-awaited. The picture looks somewhat dark. But this gloomy…
Torpedo sticks out of a Soviet submarine, 1989
You may ask how this is even possible. Here’s a story. The torpedo hit the side of the Soviet K-178 submarine due…
Pulitzer prize photo: Baby Jessica, 1987
With this photo of Baby Jessica, Oldpics starts a new section of Pulitzer Prize-winning pictures. We aim to highlight the most excellent…
Kaliningrad was a city of Kenigsberg once and became a USSR enclave after the WW2. The large portion of the Russian army…