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Found Photos: The Bon Marche Slides

Found Photos: The Bon Marche Slides

"Here's A bunch of old color transparencies that I came across," writes Ethan. "I don't know ...
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Powerful Living Rocks! Remembering Tonka’s Rock Lords

Powerful Living Rocks! Remembering Tonka’s Rock Lords

Thirty years ago, in 1986, toymakers Bandai and Tonka introduced a generation of kids to…the ...
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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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    Debbie Harry And Me – Shooting The Blondie Singer in 1970s New York City

    Debbie Harry And Me – Shooting The Blondie Singer in 1970s New York City

    Chris Stein 's photographs of Debbie Harry and friends take us back to a great era of music ...
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    The First ‘Sext’ – Sarah Goodridge’s ‘Beauty Revealed’ (1828)

    The First ‘Sext’ – Sarah Goodridge’s ‘Beauty Revealed’ (1828)

      'Beauty Revealed' is a self-portrait by the American artist Sarah Goodridge (February 5, 1788 - December 28, 1853). Descendants of US Secretary of State Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) say Goodridge painted it for him. Why is unclear. But we can guess. Robert Remini, in ...
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    Fabulous Photographs of Cruising Van Nuys Boulevard In 1972

    Fabulous Photographs of Cruising Van Nuys Boulevard In 1972

    Rick McCloskey's fabulous photographs of a vanished Californian youth culture ...
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    Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

    Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

    In 2014 Los Angeles-based photographer Merrick Morton (a onetime LAPD reserve officer) spotted a derelict stash of haunting LAPD crime photos. Here they are. ...
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    Too pinko for Dan or How Slim Pickens replaced Peter Sellers as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove

    Too pinko for Dan or How Slim Pickens replaced Peter Sellers as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove

    Kubrick had optioned Peter George’s book Red Alert and was working on a screenplay with George when he realised the impossibility of making a melodrama out such an horrific subject and thought the only rational response was to make “a nightmare comedy." ...
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    Dirty Sex, Freaks And Derelicts Of 1980s New York City (NSFW)

    Dirty Sex, Freaks And Derelicts Of 1980s New York City (NSFW)

    “Before I arrived in NYC in 1980 I had lived in Berlin and London so I was ready for the rotten apple from the beginning.” ...
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    ‘A Shit of the Highest Order!’ The Story of the Charming Lord ‘Bob’ Boothby

    ‘A Shit of the Highest Order!’ The Story of the Charming Lord ‘Bob’ Boothby

    To his face, the writer, campaigner and broadcaster Sir Ludovic Kennedy once called Baron Boothby of Buchan and Rattray Head, his mother’s cousin, ‘a shit of the highest order’. Boothby’s response was to chortle, rub his hands and say: ‘Well a bit. Not entirely.’ ...
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    The Anarchy Tour of 1976

    The Anarchy Tour of 1976

    Ray Stevenson's Extraordinary Photos of the Clash and the Sex Pistols... ...
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    The Sixteen Pleasures: The Vatican’s 16th Century Sex Guide

    The Sixteen Pleasures: The Vatican’s 16th Century Sex Guide

      I Modi (The Ways) is best known as The Sixteen Pleasures, an illustrated sex guide published by Marcantonio Raimondi in 1524. Based on paintings by Giulio Romano, The Sixteen Pleasures carries the proud boast of being the first work of pornography banned by the Catholic church. For his gross indecency, Raimondi was imprisoned by ...
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    Tea For Two: The Last Photos Of Jimi Hendrix Alive, By Monika Dannemann

    Tea For Two: The Last Photos Of Jimi Hendrix Alive, By Monika Dannemann

    On September 17, 1970, Jimi Hendrix with in London his German girlfriend, the former ice-skating teacher Monika Dannemann.  She had rented rooms at the Samarkand, a self-catering apartment hotel in Notting Hill. After a day out at Kensington Market and the Cumberland Hotel, Jimi and Monika took tea in the garden behind her flat. Monika ...
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