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Zippo Records Remembered: Julian Cope’s Droolian, MC5 Tees And The Conqueroo Dog

Zippo Records Remembered: Julian Cope’s Droolian, MC5 Tees And The Conqueroo Dog

  Pete Flanagan, owner of the long-gone Zippo Records in Clapham, south London, has sent ...
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Shot! Photos Volume IV: Grandma’s Lampshade

Shot! Photos Volume IV: Grandma’s Lampshade

SHOT! is Flashbak's home for fingers over lenses, severed limbs, missing heads, misfires, bad crops, oddly ...
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The Easter Rising 1916 Was An Inspiring Blow For Freedom

The Easter Rising 1916 Was An Inspiring Blow For Freedom

  One hundred Easters ago, a band of Irish republicans stormed the General Post Office ...
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Women With Very Big Hair In the 1960s

Women With Very Big Hair In the 1960s

Big whipped hair was very much the go-ahead style in the 1960s. We already showed you ...
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When Wearing Fur Was De Rigueur in London (1900 – 1950)

When Wearing Fur Was De Rigueur in London (1900 – 1950)

"Downy sins of streetlight fancies / Chase the costumes she shall wear / Ermine furs adorn the imperious / Severin, Severin awaits you there" - The Velvet Underground, Venus in Furs ...
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Debbie Harry, David Bowie and Elton John Star in Paula Yates’ Book Rock Stars in Their Underpants (1980)

Debbie Harry, David Bowie and Elton John Star in Paula Yates’ Book Rock Stars in Their Underpants (1980)

In 1980, Paula Yates (April 24 1960 - September 17 2000) produced a book of photos ...
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The Merry Cobler and His Musical Alphabet (ca. 1800)

The Merry Cobler and His Musical Alphabet (ca. 1800)

  Our love affair with reading begins with the ABCs. The earliest primers or hornbooks ...
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In Search Of Happiness In Disneyland 1983

In Search Of Happiness In Disneyland 1983

"After I finished photographing my ‘LAX’ series, I thought of places that had that beautiful ...
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The Age of Collage: Eugenia Loli’s Surreal Time Shifts

The Age of Collage: Eugenia Loli’s Surreal Time Shifts

  Eugenia Loli takes pictures from 20th Century magazines and science publications and reinvents them into something new, exuberant, witty ...
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Grab Hold and Pull: Remembering Kenner’s Stretch Armstrong (1976 – 1980)

Grab Hold and Pull: Remembering Kenner’s Stretch Armstrong (1976 – 1980)

Stretch Armstrong is a strange but beloved toy from the mid-1970s. The character of Stretch ...
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Judi Dench, Helen Mirren and Diana Rigg Play Shakespeare’s Nymphs In 1968

Judi Dench, Helen Mirren and Diana Rigg Play Shakespeare’s Nymphs In 1968

Behind the scenes photographs of Sir Peter Hall’s 1968 film of A Midsummer Night’s Dream were taken by David Farrell. ...
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Sound Effects In Archie Comic Books

Sound Effects In Archie Comic Books

I know I've been going Archie crazy, but I think this one'll probably do it ...
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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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