• 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

30 Old and Unsettling Photographs of Ventriloquist Dummies

30 Old and Unsettling Photographs of Ventriloquist Dummies

What is it about old photographs of ventriloquist dummies that make them a little off-putting, and often downright scary? ...
0
Post Views: 16,216
Marvin Rand’s Gorgeous Photos of California Modern

Marvin Rand’s Gorgeous Photos of California Modern

“Although he operated in the shadow of his more famous rival, the noted architectural photographer ...
0
Post Views: 5,867
I Say! What a Bounder – The Life of Terry-Thomas

I Say! What a Bounder – The Life of Terry-Thomas

The gap-toothed comedian encapsulated the idea of the caddish English rotter. ...
0
Post Views: 6,477
The Surrealist Sci-Fi Cover Art of Richard M. Powers

The Surrealist Sci-Fi Cover Art of Richard M. Powers

After a few decades of lurid pulp covers featuring half-naked space damsels in distress, grotesque, rubbery aliens, and square-jawed heroic spacemen, sci-fi publishing in the late 50s and 60s opened up to far stranger visions on the covers of their mass-market paperbacks. ...
0
Post Views: 4,284
Vivienne Westwood And Other Stars of 1973’s Landmark ‘London Belles’ Feature

Vivienne Westwood And Other Stars of 1973’s Landmark ‘London Belles’ Feature

"Although high fashion may be a thing of the past, what has replaced it is individuality and freedom to express. Women like these now make up their own minds about what they are and what they wear. Perhaps the rest of us should get the message and start being living fashion." - West One, December 7, 1973 ...
0
Post Views: 3,350
The Last of Empire: Brooke Bond Picture Cards of Famous People 1869-1969

The Last of Empire: Brooke Bond Picture Cards of Famous People 1869-1969

Brooke Bond's tea cards were a gimmick that offered young children an traditional sense of British history and identity--one greatly shaped by Empire--while instilling a favourable liking for their aromatic beverage--if only to obtain the full set of cards. ...
0
Post Views: 2,418
Photos of Marc Bolan in His Last Years with Bowie, Billy Idol, Siouxsie Sioux, The Damned, Elton John, and Rod Stewart

Photos of Marc Bolan in His Last Years with Bowie, Billy Idol, Siouxsie Sioux, The Damned, Elton John, and Rod Stewart

The death of Marc Bolan almost 41 years ago robbed the world of a mythic mercurial superstar—or at least that’s what seemed to be on the horizon again for the 29-year old poet and glam pioneer when a car crash took is life in 1977. ...
0
Post Views: 20,133
Michael Pederson’s Miniature World Of The Unexpected

Michael Pederson’s Miniature World Of The Unexpected

Artist uses skill and humour to enlarge small, everyday things ...
0
Post Views: 1,926
Jesus in Four Colors: Spire Christian Comics from the 1970s

Jesus in Four Colors: Spire Christian Comics from the 1970s

The idea of the Rapture had been floating around various Christian denominations for decades - but Christian comics brought it to the masses. ...
0
Post Views: 7,840
Chez Armageddon: The 1970s Cold War Bunker Deep Below Las Vegas

Chez Armageddon: The 1970s Cold War Bunker Deep Below Las Vegas

The home you never wanted for all eternity ...
0
Post Views: 17,572
A Look Through 1980s “Britain’s Biggest Selling Home Computer Magazine”

A Look Through 1980s “Britain’s Biggest Selling Home Computer Magazine”

"Grandad spends his time reliving his days in the RAF with Mission Impossible, Alien and Omega Race."  Meanwhile, "Dad escapes to another world with Cosmic Jailbreak..." ...
0
Post Views: 5,575
Convict Cowboys – A Look at Prison Rodeos

Convict Cowboys – A Look at Prison Rodeos

I came across this old program from October 1960 for a Texas Prison Rodeo…  Prison Rodeo?  Was this a thing?  As it turns out, yes – in fact, they were quite popular in the U.S., and some continue to this day. ...
0
Post Views: 1,755
  • 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: 570,831
    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: 667,228
    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: 51,895
    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: 14,413
    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: 24,613
    ‘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: 8,418
    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: 10,040
    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: 478,129
    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: 46,451
    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: 23,629

Past 1 … 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 … 543 Next
Top
  • Contribute
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe & Donate
  • Contact
  • Archives
  • Terms, Conditions and Cookies
  • Our Shop
  • About
  • We Buy Photographs

Alum Media © 2025