Old photos you rarely see

We study the past in order to understand the present. And photos can help us a lot. However, even though textbooks and other sources use images to illustrate the story they are talking about, we often focus on the written content instead.

12 PHOTOS

1. Mother and daughter in New York, 1970.

2. Paris, 1951

3. "I showed Freddie a picture of Marlene Dietrich from the Shanghai Express and he liked it" - Mick Rock (Freddie Mercury and Queen, photographed by Mick Rock, London, 1974).

4. RuPaul and Nirvana backstage at the MTV Music Awards, 1993.

5. Protest.

6. Audrey Hepburn and her dog. Photo by Sid Avery, 1957.

7. Sophia Loren photographed by Ormond Gigli, circa 1955.

8. Queen on the set of a music video, 1984.

9. School photos of Meryl Streep.

10. A crow lights a Tippi Hedren cigarette on the set of The Birds (dir. Alfred Hitchcock), 1963.

11. Marlene Dietrich kisses a soldier returning from the war, 1945.

12. Young Slash.