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Believing Is Seeing: Faked Photos Before The Internet

Believing Is Seeing: Faked Photos Before The Internet

  “The painter constructs, the photographer discloses” - Susan Sontag     Do we believe ...
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Listen to Hunter S. Thompson’s Unforgettable 2004 Call To Customer Services

Listen to Hunter S. Thompson’s Unforgettable 2004 Call To Customer Services

  In 2004, Hunter S. Thompson called the Design Audio/Video service in Glenwood Springs, Colorado., near ...
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The Age Of Amazon: ‘The Most Brilliantly Complicated Book Description Of All Time’

The Age Of Amazon: ‘The Most Brilliantly Complicated Book Description Of All Time’

At Flashbak we try not to look only at past gems and forgotten stories but ...
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Visions of Early 20th Century Egypt; Through The Magic Lantern

Visions of Early 20th Century Egypt; Through The Magic Lantern

Gorgeous colorised images of 19th Century Egypt.     In 1849, German-born Philadelphia daguerreotypists William ...
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One Got Fat: A Strange Bicycle Safety Film (1963)

One Got Fat: A Strange Bicycle Safety Film (1963)

  The story behind One Got Fat, a 1963 bicycle safety film, is simple: A ...
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The Therapeutic Vibrator: Images From High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry (1918)

The Therapeutic Vibrator: Images From High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry (1918)

In a plain and conservative way this book will aim to show physicians and dentists what they can now readily do with high frequency currents of electricity. ...
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18 Wonderful Visions of France In 2000 By Artists In 1900

18 Wonderful Visions of France In 2000 By Artists In 1900

En L'An 2000 (In the Year 2000) is a series of visionary cigarette cards and postcards by Jean-Marc ...
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1970s Space Colony Art: Fantastic NASA Designs for Massive Orbital Spaceships

1970s Space Colony Art: Fantastic NASA Designs for Massive Orbital Spaceships

In the 1970s space was the mission and the message. One thing occupied minds at NASA: ...
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Light Therapy For Naked Children, Delicate Adults, Sick Pigs And Quacks (Photos: 1900-1950)

Light Therapy For Naked Children, Delicate Adults, Sick Pigs And Quacks (Photos: 1900-1950)

Light therapy was popular in Europe from the turn of the century until the late 1930s. The ...
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Polaroids Blown Up: Albert Watson’s ‘Roids! Blend The Tangible With The Digital

Polaroids Blown Up: Albert Watson’s ‘Roids! Blend The Tangible With The Digital

"There needs to be some art of photography here. And that’s… that’s what you need ...
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Pleasure Boating Advert-orama: Dorsett Marine And Raymond Loewy’s Mid-Century American Dream

Pleasure Boating Advert-orama: Dorsett Marine And Raymond Loewy’s Mid-Century American Dream

  These fabulous illustrations are from the Dorsett Marine catalog 1963-64. The pictures appear to be from some ...
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Étienne-Jules Marey: Filming Life On The Move Through An All-Seeing Eye

Étienne-Jules Marey: Filming Life On The Move Through An All-Seeing Eye

  French physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey's photo gun (1882) enhanced his reputation in chronophotography, in which several sequential frames of ...
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