• Category

  • Search

Flashbak
  • VISIT OUR SHOP
  • GET OUR 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

This Way For Great Art

Visit the shop

A Gay Rights Rally in NYC (1978) – After the Stonewall Riots

A Gay Rights Rally in NYC (1978) – After the Stonewall Riots

Almost a decade after the Stonewall riots New Yorkers were loudly protesting for gay love ...
0
Post Views: 1,746
Colour Photos of Sydney and New South Wales, 1965-1967

Colour Photos of Sydney and New South Wales, 1965-1967

"Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull." Baz Luhrmann ...
0
Post Views: 3,125
The Life of William “Bill” Shankly in Pictures

The Life of William “Bill” Shankly in Pictures

If you’ve got three Scots in your side, you’ve got a chance of winning something. If you’ve got any more, you’re in trouble. ...
0
Post Views: 2,021
Street Art Posters from New York City (1970- 2001)

Street Art Posters from New York City (1970- 2001)

These images were part of the emerging art renaissance that decorated New York city's walls ...
0
Post Views: 2,444
“Not a Bed of Roses” –  Burt Glinn’s Photos of the Cuban Revolution (1959)

“Not a Bed of Roses” – Burt Glinn’s Photos of the Cuban Revolution (1959)

“At 11pm. on December 31, 1958, I decided to fly to Cuba. At daybreak, I ...
0
Post Views: 4,225
A Wonderful Collection of Mid-Century Postcards of Airports From Around the World

A Wonderful Collection of Mid-Century Postcards of Airports From Around the World

What? Only sixteen hours! Are you sure? — Orville Wright, on hearing about the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic, 15 June 1919. ...
0
Post Views: 7,462
‘Sex n Drugs n Rock n Roll’ – The Last Stonehenge Free Festival in Photos (1984)

‘Sex n Drugs n Rock n Roll’ – The Last Stonehenge Free Festival in Photos (1984)

Dave Trippas was one of the 70,000 revellers who made it to the last Stonehenge Free Festival in 1984 ...
0
Post Views: 15,056
London Library Miraculously Survives Blitz (1940)

London Library Miraculously Survives Blitz (1940)

On the evening of 27 September, 1940, Germany bombed London's Holland House. But they missed the books ...
0
Post Views: 4,242
Extraordinary Arts Studies From West Of Zanzibar By William Mortensen (1928)

Extraordinary Arts Studies From West Of Zanzibar By William Mortensen (1928)

From the outset, Mortensen's subject matter was unabashedly theatrical, bizarre and often louche. He was an ardent admirer of Goya and Daumier, and with his Hollywood access to costumes, sets, makeup and masks, created elaborate tableaux vivants in his studio. ...
0
Post Views: 6,245
A Night at O’Reilly’s Bar in New York in 1942

A Night at O’Reilly’s Bar in New York in 1942

Marjory Collins, a self-confessed "rebel looking for a cause", took these photographs of customers at an Irish bar on New York City's Third Avenue. Some of whom were sailors on their last night of leave.  ...
0
Post Views: 4,228
Brilliant Expressionist Dance Costumers From The 1920s

Brilliant Expressionist Dance Costumers From The 1920s

In 1924 married avant-garde dancers Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt posed for Minya Diez-Dührkoop. It ended in murder ...
0
Post Views: 3,494
A Dying Miner’s Letter To His Beloved Wife (1902)

A Dying Miner’s Letter To His Beloved Wife (1902)

On May 19th, 1902, 26 miners working at the Fraterville Coal Mine in Tennessee, were trapped underground. They wrote these letters. ...
0
Post Views: 127,584
  • This Way For Great Art

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

    New

    Soft, durable 100% Organic Cotton

  • 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: 579,244
    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: 669,765
    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    "I get a thrill when they’re kneeling there, between my knees and they’re looking up at me. And I want them to call me Mr Hill, not Benny. ‘Is that all right for you, Mr Hill?’ That’s lovely, that is, I really like that,” I asked him why and he said, “Well, it’s respectful...”’ - Benny Hill ...
    0
    Post Views: 148,581
    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroids‎ (1979 - 1984) show us thoughtful and dreamy visions of his native Russia, featuring his family, his dog, his home, his garden, views from trips to Italy and a 'selfie'. Tarkovsky (4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) is the revered film director of whom Ingmar Bergman said, “Tarkovsky ...
    0
    Post Views: 3,480
    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: 481,637
    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: 48,917

Past 1 … 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 … 556 Next
Top
  • Contribute
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe & Donate
  • Contact
  • Archives
  • Terms, Conditions and Cookies
  • Our Shop
  • About
  • We Buy Photographs

Alum Media © 2026