Vintage: London Fog in black and white

July 1907: St Pancras Railway Station. (Topical Press Agency / Getty Images)

The cold weather preceding and during the smog meant that Londoners were burning more coal than usual to keep warm. Post-war domestic coal tended to be of a relatively low-grade, sulfurous variety (economic necessity meant that better-quality “hard” coals tended to be exported), which increased the amount of sulfur dioxide in the smoke. There were also numerous coal-fired power stations in the Greater London area, including Fulham, Battersea, Bankside, and Kingston upon Thames, all of which added to the pollution.

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via Jezebel: Here Are the Unretouched Images From Lena Dunham's Vogue Shoot

Within two hours of offering $10,000 for unretouched images from Annie Leibovitz's photography session with the HBO star, we received six allegedly unaltered images. As expected, they're great — Lena looks fantastic. Aside from the obvious lighting tweaks that any publication would make, the unretouched images are pretty perfect. Which makes some of the adjustments — slightly narrowing a jaw or raising a waistline — seem that much more unnecessary. Why bother? These slight tweaks, the "you look great, but you'd look just a little more great if..." stuff is insidious.

But this is what Vogue does, and it's interesting to see what Leibovitz and editor-in-chief Anna Wintour felt that they needed to "fix" before pictures of Lena could be presented to readers.

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