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Photographs Of Tenement Houses On Orchard Street, New York City 1902-1914

Photographs Of Tenement Houses On Orchard Street, New York City 1902-1914

These photographs were taken by Inspectors of the New York City Tenement House Department, 1902-1914.  The buildings ...
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Jambes Et Attitudes: Photos From A 1930 French Sex Magazine

Jambes Et Attitudes: Photos From A 1930 French Sex Magazine

In 1930 for a mere 15 francs, the French could take home a copy of ...
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I Can Has Samuel Beckett: Irish Writer Grinds Cats’ Noses In The Shit

I Can Has Samuel Beckett: Irish Writer Grinds Cats’ Noses In The Shit

At Flashbak we love to dig up forgotten gems and rediscover how the past never ...
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Wyndham Lewis’ Blast 1: The Daddy of The Modern Aesthetic Manifesto

Wyndham Lewis’ Blast 1: The Daddy of The Modern Aesthetic Manifesto

  Wyndham Lewis’ 1914 publication Blast 1 is the daddy of the modern aesthetic manifesto. ...
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New York City In The 1970s: Living It Low In The Bowery

When Leland Bobbé shared with us his pictures of 1970s New York City we loved ...
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David Hockney Etchings for The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

David Hockney Etchings for The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

In the 1960s David Hockney was hired to illustrate the British Royal Academy of Arts' book ...
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Hideous Food Adverts For Regrettable Meals (1968)

Hideous Food Adverts For Regrettable Meals (1968)

  Nothing makes me want a can of meat paste more than seeing it ground ...
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The Art of Industry: Francois Kollar’s Stunning Photos Of Beauty In Work

The Art of Industry: Francois Kollar’s Stunning Photos Of Beauty In Work

Before he became a photographer at 24 François Kollar (born Senec, Slovakia, 1904 (formerly Szenc, ...
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Found Photos: Children Hanging Out With The Family In The 1960s

Found Photos: Children Hanging Out With The Family In The 1960s

Found Photos: children hanging out with relatives in the 1960s. We love found photos – ...
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David Bowie: The Exquisite Mug Shot From His 1976 Drugs Bust

David Bowie: The Exquisite Mug Shot From His 1976 Drugs Bust

  On March 21, 1976, David Bowie was busted for pot. The Democrat and Chronicle reported that ...
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David Bowie: ‘Life On Mars Was My Revenge Song For Missing My Way’

In 2012, David Bowie contributed to a BBC Radio show on My Way, that swaggering karaoke hit, ...
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1950s Cookbooks: Recipes From A Decade Of Hope And Regret

1950s Cookbooks: Recipes From A Decade Of Hope And Regret

  So, I picked up a few midcentury cookbooks at an antiques store and thought ...
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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 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. ...
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    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 ...
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    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 ...
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    ‘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 ...
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    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 ...
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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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    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 ...
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