• 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

In November 1938 ‘Homes and Gardens’ Visited Hitler’s Home in the Bavarian Alps

In November 1938 ‘Homes and Gardens’ Visited Hitler’s Home in the Bavarian Alps

  On the evening of 10 November 1938 many people all over Britain would have ...
0
Post Views: 9,531
Library of Shame ’73: A Look at the Year in Bad Books

Library of Shame ’73: A Look at the Year in Bad Books

Before you is a library of the worst 1973 had to offer.  Granted, I’d probably ...
0
Post Views: 2,029
Disco Era Detritus: Odds & Ends from 1979

Disco Era Detritus: Odds & Ends from 1979

  This isn't your typical "what was happening in 1979" story.  We won't go into ...
0
Post Views: 3,965
The Art of Selling Smokes: 11 Vintage Tobacco Adverting Techniques

The Art of Selling Smokes: 11 Vintage Tobacco Adverting Techniques

Let's face it, it wasn't too hard to sell a highly addictive toxin in the ...
0
Post Views: 3,094
Plastic Also-Rans? The Weird but Awesome Sci-Fi Action Figures of the 1970s

Plastic Also-Rans? The Weird but Awesome Sci-Fi Action Figures of the 1970s

  The great age of action figures arguably began in the seventies with toy companies ...
0
Post Views: 2,947
What Sort of Man Reads Playboy? The Ultimate Male According to the Bunny Magazine

What Sort of Man Reads Playboy? The Ultimate Male According to the Bunny Magazine

Anyone who has opened a Playboy magazine from the 1960s-70s will recognize the "What sort ...
0
Post Views: 2,909
Bronco Bullfrog: One of UK Cinema’s Bona Fide Obscurities

Bronco Bullfrog: One of UK Cinema’s Bona Fide Obscurities

Bronco Bullfrog: a forgotten cult cinema gem.     Heard the one about the public-school ...
0
Post Views: 2,415
A Square Dance in McIntosh County, Oklahoma (1940)

A Square Dance in McIntosh County, Oklahoma (1940)

Between 1939 and 1944 the U.S. government’s Farm Security Administration (FSA) (later renamed the Office ...
0
Post Views: 553
13 One Season Wonders of the 1960s and 70s

13 One Season Wonders of the 1960s and 70s

  Some shows stay around long after their expiration date (ex. Family Ties) and others ...
0
Post Views: 5,554
Geometrical Psychology: Mr Betts’ 19th-Century Mathematical Illustrations on The Evolution Of Consciousness

Geometrical Psychology: Mr Betts’ 19th-Century Mathematical Illustrations on The Evolution Of Consciousness

Extracts from Geometrical psychology, or, The science of representation by Louisa S. Cook. Geometrical psychology, ...
0
Post Views: 456
Boozvertising (Part 2): More Vintage Alcohol Adverts

Boozvertising (Part 2): More Vintage Alcohol Adverts

As we learned in Boozvertising Part 1, the art of selling alcohol is often a ...
0
Post Views: 642
You’ll Burn Your Fingers!  Remembering Mattel’s Strange Change Toy (1967)

You’ll Burn Your Fingers! Remembering Mattel’s Strange Change Toy (1967)

  File this one under great toys that kids of the twenty-first century would never ...
0
Post Views: 3,220
  • 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: 579,272
    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: 669,773
    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: 148,613
    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: 3,483
    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: 481,662
    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: 48,949

Past 1 … 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 … 556 Next
Top
  • Contribute
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe & Donate
  • Contact
  • Archives
  • Terms, Conditions and Cookies
  • Our Shop
  • About
  • We Buy Photographs

Alum Media © 2026