FLASHBAK

Flashbak is a digital collection of thousands of wonderful pictures, stories, letters, sounds and movies from across the past, with one aim - to make the past come alive. More at www.flashbak.com. Shop: www.flashbakshop.com

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Madcap Erotic Scenes from La Grande Danse Macabre des Vifs by Martin van Maële, 1905 - Flashbak

Martin van Maële drew erotica and in the La Grande Danse Macabre des Vifs, 1905, we see the best of his work.

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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 whose success burned bright and fast. It is difficult to grasp just how revolutionary and how utterly shocking this slight young man’s deceptively simple ink … Continue reading "Aubrey Beardsley’s Illustrations for Oscar Wilde’s ‘Salome’"

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Soviet Science After The Fall - Flashbak

The photographer Eric Lusito has been looking at former Soviet scientific institutes after the Cold War ended.

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A trip to to the British seaside in the company of the Seaside: Photographed exhibition at the Turner Contemporary in Margate, Kent. Off we go in search of fun at seaside. Do remember to write. And do look at Hardwicke Knight’s gorgeous photographs in the shop. Seaside: Photographed is at Turner Contemporary, Margate, from 25 … Continue reading "The Great British Seaside In Photographs"

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How the First Pride Parades Radicalized the Gay Rights Movement in the 1970s - Flashbak

Like most civil rights movements in the U.S., the gay rights movement began much earlier than popular histories tell us, dating at least as far back the early 1950s with the founding of the Mattachine Society. Named after medieval bards who wandered around challenging injustices, the society had some impressive early success, then fractured over … Continue reading "How the First Pride Parades Radicalized the Gay Rights Movement in the 1970s"

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How the First Pride Parades Radicalized the Gay Rights Movement in the 1970s - Flashbak

Like most civil rights movements in the U.S., the gay rights movement began much earlier than popular histories tell us, dating at least as far back the early 1950s with the founding of the Mattachine Society. Named after medieval bards who wandered around challenging injustices, the society had some impressive early success, then fractured over … Continue reading "How the First Pride Parades Radicalized the Gay Rights Movement in the 1970s"

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Genesis P-Orridge, General Idea And File Magazine's Subversive Mail-Art (NSFW) - Flashbak

Letters by Genesis P-Orridge to Canada's art collective General Idea (1969–1994) for mail art and FILE magazine

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Genesis P-Orridge, General Idea And File Magazine's Subversive Mail-Art (NSFW) - Flashbak

Letters by Genesis P-Orridge to Canada's art collective General Idea (1969–1994) for mail art and FILE magazine

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Genesis P-Orridge, General Idea And File Magazine's Subversive Mail-Art (NSFW) - Flashbak

Letters by Genesis P-Orridge to Canada's art collective General Idea (1969–1994) for mail art and FILE magazine

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Haight-Ashbury Portraits: Teenagers in The Summer of Love, 1968 - Flashbak

In The Haight-Ashbury Portraits, 1967-1968 during the end days of the Summer of Love, Elaine Mayes took a set of portraits of youth culture

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Restless New York In The Post-War Years By Vivian Cherry - Flashbak

Vivian Cherry was one of the first street photographers working in restless New York City, recording life she saw

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Raymond Pettibon's Punk Album Covers For Black Flag, Sonic Youth and More Hardcore Bands - Flashbak

Raymond Pettibon has created great cover art for Black Flag, Sonic Youth and a raft of other bands and singers

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Bend it Like Grandma: 27 Vintage Contortion and Acrobatic Photos - Flashbak

In this album of found photos of contortions and acrobatics, Robert E. Jackson shows us people bending both professionally and just for fun

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1948: A Naked Woman Shocks And Entertains In Paris - Flashbak

1948: Naked Women Shock And Entertain Paris

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New York City Street Life in the Late 1940s and 50s - Flashbak

Sy Kattelson's photos of people in NYC taken around 1948. The Bronx-born photographer would take his camera into Manhattan.

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Women In Trees: A Fabulous Album of Vintage Found Photos - Flashbak

These joyous found photos of Women in Trees were collected by Jochen Raiß, a photo editor based in Hamburg, Germany.

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The Occasionally Brilliant Nationwide Jubilee Song Contest, 1977 - Flashbak

On May 17th 1977, the BBC hosted the final of the Nationwide Jubilee Song Contest to mark Her Majesty's 25 years on the throne.