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DavoTB t1_ja87ddo wrote

Reply to Beatles era supermodel Jean Shrimpton and Paul McCartney photographed by Richard Avedon, ā€œHarperā€™s Bazaarā€ April, 1965 by butterflypoo69

Jean Shrimpton is sometimes mentioned as the ā€œfirst supermodel,ā€ coming to fame in the early sixties, prior to the Beatlesā€™ own fame. She was the notable ā€œfaceā€ of the Swinging London era, working with (and dating) famed photographer David Bailey.

This 1965 Richard Avedon series is usually shown in black-and-white, and there are about a dozen variants, with Paul and Jean in different poses, as well as some of either by themselves in the shot. This, with Paul looking somewhat bored and Jean behind him, wearing sunglasses, is perhaps most famous of the series.

The following year, the Beatles posed individually for Avedon again, in a series used for Look Magazineā€™s poster series and later the LP cover for ā€œLove Songs.ā€

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Raptor-Jesus666 t1_ja84shn wrote

Reply to Kazimierz Zeglen (left), Polish priest and inventor of the bulletproof vest, testing out his invention (1869) by krFrillaKrilla

These vests were so easily stolen by criminals from police stations. The Dillinger gang would actually hit the police department first, stealing all the equipment they would later use to rob the towns bank, so when the police responded they had no gear to counter fully armed bank robbers. The Dillinger Gang stole so many of these vests, they were often referred too as the "dillinger vest" by the media at the time.

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