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Signs Of The Times: The Farmville, Virginia Protests, 1963 - Flashbak “We may observe with much sadness and irony that, outside of Africa, south of the Sahara, where education is still a difficult challenge, the only places on earth known not to provide free public educ...

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Terrible Visions of Death And Evil on Alfred Kubin's Journey Back To The Womb - Flashbak Alfred Kubin created bizarre and horrific art. Humans appear as skeletal, ghost-like creatures or hideously deformed things. They share surreal and hellish landscapes with monsters, vermin and peculia...

Terrible Visions of Death And Evil on Alfred Kubin's Journey Back To The Womb - flashbak.com/alfred-kubin...

'Goldfish Are Wankers': London Graffiti, 1984-1994 - Flashbak Peter Marshall captured London graffiti when he was walking the city with his camera. He took many pictures of graffiti, and this is second instalment from his archive.

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Glasgow 1978 - An Erotic Odyssey On The Way To The Job Centre - Flashbak Architect James Miller designed an entertainment complex in Glasgow’s Renfield Street for Miss Catherine Cranston (1849–1934), better known as the owner of famous tea rooms, in 1916. Cranston’s Cinema...

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Photos of London's Cinemas in the 1980s - Flashbak They don’t make them like they used to. Not only the films, but the cinemas, too. London was once replete with picture palaces built in Deco and neo-classic fashion in successful bids to stand out on…

Photos of London's Cinemas in the 1980s - Flashbak

New York City In The 1960s - A Photographer's Love story - Flashbak For New Yorker Ronnie Ginnever, photography is a passion. “Fortunately, I was born in the city that I love – New York City,” she says. ” On a good day, I move with the rhythms of the city and feel…

New York City In The 1960s - A Photographer's Love story - Flashbak

23 Before And After Vintage Snapshots - Flashbak “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.” — Mark Twain     Take a moment to look at the photo above. We don’t know Maureen. She’s the subject of a pair of…

23 Before And After Vintage Snapshots - Flashbak

Free Cannabis on Speakers Corner, September 2000 - Flashbak “I believe I have the birthright to cultivate and use the cannabis plant for all its uses. I have used all the substances listed, with the possible exception of the MDMA (ecstasy), in a shamanic…

Free Cannabis on Speakers Corner, September 2000 - Flashbak

Daido Moriyama (Japanese, b. 1938)
Ebina, Kanagawa
1969
From A Hunter
Gelatin silver print

Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book - Flashbak The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human…

Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book - Flashbak

Architect Carlo Mollino's Secret Stash of Erotic Polaroids (NSFW) - Flashbak After Italian architect and designer Carlo Mollino died in 1973, a large secret stash of erotic Polaroids were uncovered among his personal effects.

Architect Carlo Mollino's Secret Stash of Erotic Polaroids (NSFW) - Flashbak

Zsa Zsa Gabor and Buster Keaton in 1959

A Day Out in London on the 14th November 1987 - Flashbak On 14 November 1987, Peter Hancox, was on a trip to London. “The photos I took on that day include some of the exhibits at Madame Tussaud’s and show how famous people 38 years ago are maybe a little…

A Day Out in London on the 14th November 1987 - Flashbak

Yokai Horrors From The 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll - Flashbak You could cut this 18th Century Japanese scroll into neat squares and use the 24 images for a game of Guess Who? – Yokai. Does yours have one eye..?  Does yours have teeth..? Does yours eat raw human…

Yokai Horrors From The 18th Century Bakemono Zukushi Scroll - Flashbak

The Case of the Curiously Absent French Fries and Other Adverts of '74 - Flashbak Ahhh. Remember when credit cards were for emergencies?

The Case of the Curiously Absent French Fries and Other Adverts of '74 - Flashbak

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The Lust Filled Pages of Archie Comics in the 1970s - Flashbak Anyone would agree, Archie comics are a fairly wholesome, squeaky clean read. They’re fun for a laugh, but would never offer anything edgy or risqué, right? Think again

The Lust Filled Pages of Archie Comics in the 1970s - Flashbak

The Fine Art of Yearbook Defacing - Flashbak Whoever the mysterious graffiti firebrand is, I'd love to give him a high-five for his wonderfully hilarious douchebaggery littering nearly every page.

The Fine Art of Yearbook Defacing - Flashbak

On the Walls in the 1970s: Pictures of the Poster Craze - Flashbak In the 1950s, kids’ bedroom walls were pretty sparse.  You might find a framed picture of a flower or a creepy clown, but nothing really making a statement or – god forbid – even remotely risque. …

On the Walls in the 1970s: Pictures of the Poster Craze - Flashbak

Glue-Sniffing Clowns On The Loose! 20 Brilliantly Outrageous True Crime Headlines - Flashbak IS THERE anything on planet Earth more tasteless and lurid than an a true crime magazine from the 70s and 80s?...

Glue-Sniffing Clowns On The Loose! 20 Brilliantly Outrageous True Crime Headlines - Flashbak

A Look Inside the 1970s Kids' Magazine "Bananas" - Flashbak Most 1970s kids in the US will remember Dynamite magazine, but do you remember its older brother, Bananas?  It was a similar scholastic magazine with eye-catching covers featuring familiar 70s pop…

A Look Inside the 1970s Kids' Magazine "Bananas" - Flashbak

More Found Wedding Portraits From 1960s New York (Part 2) - Flashbak ‘Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further’ ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind Here’s Part 2 of our look at New York wedding photos from a professional…

More Found Wedding Portraits From 1960s New York (Part 2) - Flashbak

The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel, 1565 - Flashbak Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel - The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel - illustrations by François Desprez

The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel, 1565 - Flashbak

Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard's Surreal Collaboration - Flashbak Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by German-American-French artist and founder of the Dada movement Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976). The…

Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard's Surreal Collaboration - Flashbak

Aubrey Beardsley's Illustrations for Oscar Wilde's 'Salome' - Flashbak Aubrey Beardsley’s artistic career began with schoolboy doodles in the margins of text books and ended in near poverty drawing erotica for private collectors. In between Beardsley was a phenomenon…

Aubrey Beardsley's Illustrations for Oscar Wilde's 'Salome' - Flashbak

How John Steinbeck Harnessed Desire and Self-Doubt To Write The Grapes of Wrath - Flashbak “This is the longest diary I ever kept. Not a diary of course but an attempt to map the actual working days and hours of a novel. If a day is skipped it will show glaringly on this record and there…

How John Steinbeck Harnessed Desire and Self-Doubt To Write The Grapes of Wrath - Flashbak

Man Ray's Mathematics Objects (1934-36) - Flashbak The collection of 19th-century three-dimensional models of algebraic and differential equations at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris made a great impression on Surrealist artists.     When German…

Man Ray's Mathematics Objects (1934-36) - Flashbak

Historical Figures in Ridiculous Frippery: Ruff Love For Old Masters - Flashbak “If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask… with nothing beneath…

Historical Figures in Ridiculous Frippery: Ruff Love For Old Masters - Flashbak

Photos Of Working-Class Housing in Leeds, 1969-72 - Flashbak Photos Of Leeds Slums 1969-72

Photos Of Working-Class Housing in Leeds, 1969-72 - Flashbak

Colour Snapshots of Leeds to London in the 1970s - Flashbak Londoner Peter Mitchell (born 1943) began taking photographs of Leeds in the early 1970s. After studying art at Hornsey College of Art in north London, he travelled to Leeds to visit friends. “I set…

Colour Snapshots of Leeds to London in the 1970s - Flashbak