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A History Of Controversial Children’s Books: Sex, Racism And Obscene Rebellion

A History Of Controversial Children’s Books: Sex, Racism And Obscene Rebellion

Our history of controversial children's books: sex, drugs, sambo's gay lover and anti-authoritarianism in the classroom. ...
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Children Dressed As Flowers For The Wildflower Preservation Society’s Colorful Day Out (1920)

Children Dressed As Flowers For The Wildflower Preservation Society’s Colorful Day Out (1920)

  In 1920, the Wildflower Preservation Society, Illinois Chapter, (WPSIC) convened for a celebration of ...
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The Brixton Riots and Winifred Atwell – The Amazing Honky Tonk Woman

The Brixton Riots and Winifred Atwell – The Amazing Honky Tonk Woman

At around eight o’clock on the Saturday evening of 14 April 1981, a Molotov cocktail ...
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Brian Eno, Polly Eltes and Judy Nylon In A Rare 1974 Promo

Brian Eno, Polly Eltes and Judy Nylon In A Rare 1974 Promo

  This is the little-seen promo video for Brian Eno’s song China, My China (from ...
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A Clockwork Carpet: When Floor Coverings Went Orange

A Clockwork Carpet: When Floor Coverings Went Orange

To say orange was a popular color in the late sixties to early seventies would ...
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When the Oscar Statue Snorted Cocaine On Hollywood Boulevard

When the Oscar Statue Snorted Cocaine On Hollywood Boulevard

Every so often we at Flashbak see something from the present and near-present we think ...
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Marie Høeg and Bolette Berg Mocked Gender Roles In These Private End Of The 19th Century Photographs

Marie Høeg and Bolette Berg Mocked Gender Roles In These Private End Of The 19th Century Photographs

  In a box marked “private”, portrait photographers Marie Høeg (1866-1949) and Bolette Berg (1872-1944) ...
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Marilyn Monroe In A Jackie Kennedy Wig (1962)

Marilyn Monroe In A Jackie Kennedy Wig (1962)

In June 1962, six weeks before she died, Marilyn Monroe pulled on a black wig and ...
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The Newlyweds and their Baby Were America’s First Comic Book Family (1907)

The Newlyweds and their Baby Were America’s First Comic Book Family (1907)

  In 1904 George McManus ( 1884-1954) scored a job at New York World, Joseph Pulitzer's ...
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Willy Michel And Me: A Photographer’s Joyous Mid-Century Photomaton Portraits

Willy Michel And Me: A Photographer’s Joyous Mid-Century Photomaton Portraits

In the summer of 1928, Willy Michel (August 20, 1905 - March 1, 1976) began ...
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Frida Kahlo’s Touching Letter to A Troubled Georgia O’Keeffe (1933)

Frida Kahlo’s Touching Letter to A Troubled Georgia O’Keeffe (1933)

  On March 1st, 1933, 26-year-old Mexican painter Frida Kahlo wrote this letter to her ...
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Photos Of Brutal Paris, City of Concrete

Photos Of Brutal Paris, City of Concrete

Paris-born Damien Gosset photographs the architecture of his home city. Look at any American-made TV show ...
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    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 ...
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    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 ...
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    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 ...
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    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 ...
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    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, ...
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    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 ...
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