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• ‘It was -10 in the air, but nearly 40 degrees in the water’: Magali Chesnel’s best phone picture

  10-09-2022 11:00
  The French photographer on the joys – and difficulties – of taking pictures in Iceland’s Blue LagoonIt wasn’t until Magali Chesnel was on her flight back to Geneva that she figured out why the people she’d seen swimming earlier that day had been wearing bin bags on their heads. After a week of solo travel around the south of Iceland, the French photographer had spent the morning at the famous Blue Lagoon geothermal spa, just a short drive from the airport. Returning
  
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• Idealised, gilded or defaced, Queen Elizabeth's image dominated our age

  10-09-2022 09:00
  From Beaton to Warhol, from the Sex Pistols to the coins in our pockets, the Queen’s face has been everywhereWe carried her in our pockets and purses, jangled her and handed her over, put her in slot machines and bought soft drinks with her. The first image of Queen Elizabeth II that I can remember looking at was her profile on the new decimal coinage we were shown in infant school. The face on her coins was ineffable and timeless, and dominated our age.The monarch’s face on a coin i
  
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• From See How They Run to Frozen Planet II: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  10-09-2022 07:00
  Whether you’re after a comic detective case or flabbergasting footage of frosty fauna, out critics have you covered for the next seven daysSee How They RunOut now
  Showbusiness can be murder, quite literally, in this comic whodunnit. A Hollywood producer attempts to turn a popular play into a film, only to be stymied by the deaths of various members of the production, prompting an investigation by officers played by Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan. Continue reading...
  
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