• 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

Camera Comics: A Short-Lived Rarity From The 1940s

Camera Comics: A Short-Lived Rarity From The 1940s

A true comics rarity, only nine issues of Camera Comics were ever published by U. ...
0
Post Views: 2,645
The Unwilling Tourist: Adolf Hoffmeister’s 1941 Guide To Being A Refugee

The Unwilling Tourist: Adolf Hoffmeister’s 1941 Guide To Being A Refugee

“I have nothing very nice to say about myself, but one thing I know, on ...
0
Post Views: 724
An Evil Genius Of Inventive Malice: John Deakin Under The Influence In Soho

An Evil Genius Of Inventive Malice: John Deakin Under The Influence In Soho

  “The second nastiest little man I have ever met” – Barbara Hutton "An evil ...
0
Post Views: 1,262
It Pushes You to Your Limit: Remembering Computer Perfection (1979)

It Pushes You to Your Limit: Remembering Computer Perfection (1979)

Lakeside's Electronic Perfection was billed in 1979 as "the ultimate playmate" and the same advertising ...
0
Post Views: 2,308
USA vs. Bikers, Commies, & Savages! A Fun-Filled Look at Action Mag Xenophobia

USA vs. Bikers, Commies, & Savages! A Fun-Filled Look at Action Mag Xenophobia

We're all familiar with the "When Animals Attack" trope of the vintage action magazine.  However, ...
0
Post Views: 4,237
Edward Bawden: Life In An English Village, 1949

Edward Bawden: Life In An English Village, 1949

Edward Bawden (1903–1989) drew these delightful lithographs of his home village of Great Bardfield in Essex. Life ...
0
Post Views: 1,247
The Southern Comfort Happy Hour Bar Guide from 1969

The Southern Comfort Happy Hour Bar Guide from 1969

The Happy Hour! The most popular way to entertain today! So said Southern Comfort who ...
0
Post Views: 535
1960s Austin Gangsters: Nihilists with Cadillacs and Elvis Hair

1960s Austin Gangsters: Nihilists with Cadillacs and Elvis Hair

Over cocktails at Austin’s Townes Van Zandt Hotel I was captivated by writer Jesse Sublett’s ...
0
Post Views: 2,640
Chris Spedding: A 1970s Unsung Style Hero

Chris Spedding: A 1970s Unsung Style Hero

  Guitarist Chris Spedding is one of the unsung heroes of Seventies style. I’ve been ...
0
Post Views: 1,205
Gastro-Disasters: Spectacularly Appalling Food Adverts from Yesteryear

Gastro-Disasters: Spectacularly Appalling Food Adverts from Yesteryear

  Mmm-mm. Dee-lish!  They sure knew how to make a meat paste look tasty back ...
0
Post Views: 4,238
Life Is Elsewhere: Abandoned Schools In The Irish Countryside

Life Is Elsewhere: Abandoned Schools In The Irish Countryside

Cork-based Enda O’Flaherty's photographs of abandoned schools in Ireland are haunting, colorful, eerie and make ...
0
Post Views: 1,307
Glove Puppets The Buddha of Bauhaus Paul Klee Made For His Son Felix

Glove Puppets The Buddha of Bauhaus Paul Klee Made For His Son Felix

Paul Klee (1879-1940), aka 'Buddha of the Bauhaus', made eight glove puppets for his son Felix’s ninth ...
0
Post Views: 3,751
  • 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: 579,220
    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: 669,750
    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: 148,513
    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: 3,468
    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: 481,593
    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: 48,869

Past 1 … 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 … 556 Next
Top
  • Contribute
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe & Donate
  • Contact
  • Archives
  • Terms, Conditions and Cookies
  • Our Shop
  • About
  • We Buy Photographs

Alum Media © 2026