• Category

  • Search

Flashbak
  • OUR SHOP FOR ALL GOOD THINGS
  • SAVE 10% + FREE NEWSLETTER
  • Shop
  • Join
  • Donate & Subscribe
  • Archives
  • We Buy Photographs
  • About
  • Flashbak on Facebook
  • Flashbak on Twitter
  • Flashbak on Pinterest
  • Flashbak on Instagram
  • Flashbak RSS Feed

VISIT OUR SHOP

Visit the shop

Nijinsky in Pictures: The World-Famous Ballet Dancer Disappears into His Celebrated Roles

Nijinsky in Pictures: The World-Famous Ballet Dancer Disappears into His Celebrated Roles

“I am God in a body,” wrote Vaslav Nijinsky (1879-1944) in his famous Diary. “Everyone has this feeling, but no one uses it.” ...
0
Post Views: 2,136
Texas In The 1970s: Photos Of Life In The Lone State State

Texas In The 1970s: Photos Of Life In The Lone State State

The Documerica Project was put together by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1971 essentially to document the adverse effects of modern life on the environment... ...
0
Post Views: 12,326
Jimmy Hoffa Explains the U.S. in 1960:”Nobody in this Country Respects What’s Weak, Believe Me.”

Jimmy Hoffa Explains the U.S. in 1960:”Nobody in this Country Respects What’s Weak, Believe Me.”

Hoffa, the granite-faced Midwestern trucking union president with a flexible relationship to ethics might have seemed like an unlikely famous figure just a few years ago. Now, it’s easy to imagine his broad, bulldog mug and combative style, dodging and weaving in congressional hearings in 2019 to cover for his connections. ...
0
Post Views: 3,485
The Dixon Illinois Street Festival of 1959

The Dixon Illinois Street Festival of 1959

Found photos of an American town's 1950s get together ...
0
Post Views: 1,829
Vintage Photos Of Swimming In New York’s Open Air Pools

Vintage Photos Of Swimming In New York’s Open Air Pools

In 1936 eleven WPA swimming pools opened in the city, giving New Yorkers sweet relief from the heat. The pools were feats of engineering for the time, plus each was architecturally distinct. ...
0
Post Views: 7,010
The Lost Street Photographs of Pittsburgh by Elliott Erwitt  (1950)

The Lost Street Photographs of Pittsburgh by Elliott Erwitt (1950)

“The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.” ...
0
Post Views: 3,128
Jeff Devine’s Photographs of Oahu’s North Shore in the 1970s

Jeff Devine’s Photographs of Oahu’s North Shore in the 1970s

Devine’s photos of Oahu in the 70s evoke gnarly dynamism and eerie calm by turns. ...
0
Post Views: 6,787
John G. Zimmerman: America In Black And White

John G. Zimmerman: America In Black And White

From 1952-1955, Zimmerman photographed a series of assignments for Ebony depicting the lives of African Americans in the Midwest and the Jim Crow south. ...
0
Post Views: 2,269
Ceausescu’s Orphans 30 years later

Ceausescu’s Orphans 30 years later

Catching up with the orphans whose plight horrified the world ...
0
Post Views: 6,229
Fabulous Photos of Christmas Shopping in New York City – December 1910

Fabulous Photos of Christmas Shopping in New York City – December 1910

"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph." Shirley Temple ...
0
Post Views: 4,564
I Married A Munchkin At The Chicago Midget Club (1948 – 1982)

I Married A Munchkin At The Chicago Midget Club (1948 – 1982)

In 1948 former Wizard of Oz Munchkin Parnell St. Aubin set up a bar with his new wife Mary Ellen Burbach, the former midget Mae West ...
0
Post Views: 14,431
When Tobacco Companies Used Doctors to Sell Cigarettes

When Tobacco Companies Used Doctors to Sell Cigarettes

There was a time when doctors actively promoted cigarettes—or at least appeared to—in dozens of ads with supposedly authoritative testimonials from physicians. ...
0
Post Views: 6,573
  • VISIT OUR SHOP

    Visit the shop
  • 15% OFF ANY 3 OF OUR T-SHIRTS

    New
  • Editor picks

    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

      These portrait photographs of Russia's ruling Romanovs were taken in 1903 at the Winter Palace in majestic. St. Petersburg. Knowing what was to follow, the venue was apposite. St Petersburg is the city Christopher Hitchens called "an apparent temple of civilization: the polished window between Russia and Europe... the ...
    0
    Post Views: 571,122
    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Ephemeral, disposable, they served only one purpose—to let someone know "I'm here. I'm thinking of you" - Pablo Iglesias Maurer ...
    0
    Post Views: 667,463
    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    Cass Elliot died choking on a ham sandwich; everybody knows that. Except that she didn’t. ...
    0
    Post Views: 52,199
    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

      It was a Saturday evening, St Valentine’s Day 1970, when William Jellett first thought he might be Jesus. He was on the London Underground, travelling back from work, and noticed the headline of the newspaper unfurled opposite him: “Cambridge riots — two policemen beaten up”. There had been student protests the ...
    0
    Post Views: 14,605
    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    “It kept me from eating it if it was framed on the wall” - Mark Mcloud on his amazing collection of LSD Blotters ...
    0
    Post Views: 24,894
    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

      In 1980, Chuck Berry spoke to St Louis-based punk zine Jet Lag (1980 -1991). Berry talked about his first gig, signing with Leonard Chess's Chess Records, his role as a "teenage historian" and "what the kids are listening to these days". He was invited to review some records. Chuck Berry's record ...
    0
    Post Views: 8,628
    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    "I humbly invite you to take a stroll through my life in the squatter community of the Lower East Side (LES) in the 1990s," writes Ash Thayer, whose book, Kill City, focuses on New York City squatters, harking back to another age, when city's were not being made overly safe, libraries were valued ...
    0
    Post Views: 10,402
    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904) was not into smut and eroticism. His rapid-fire sequential photographs of two naked women kissing served to aid his studies of human and animal movement. It was in the interests of art and science Muybridge secured the services of two women, ...
    0
    Post Views: 478,438
    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Siouxsie Sioux (born Susan Janet Ballion on 27 May 1957) found fame with Siouxsie and The Banshees, the band she so-created with Steven Severin. Many pictures of Siouxsie Sioux and the rest of the group and their friends were taken by photographer Ray Stevenson, the brother of Nils Stevenson, who managed ...
    0
    Post Views: 46,690
    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Let's time travel to the 1970s, when the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) was a fun place to study. Michael Jang was a student at CalArts, a school set up by Walt Disney in the 1960s. Jang wandered about the place, aiming the Leica camera he'd bought from a wedding photographer at his ...
    0
    Post Views: 23,795

Past 1 … 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 … 545 Next
Top
  • Contribute
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe & Donate
  • Contact
  • Archives
  • Terms, Conditions and Cookies
  • Our Shop
  • About
  • We Buy Photographs

Alum Media © 2025