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WHAT IS 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. We are also a photographic agency.

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Blog 2 months ago
Lanny Sommese: Graphic Art and When to Stop Making It
"Know when your work is done, then just walk away before you Fck it all up." - Lanny Sommese The Tsar has his Photo taken by Lanny Sommese, 1983. Prints. You can see work by Lanny Sommese (1943-2022) at the Library of Congress. The American graphic design
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Revisiting Collaborative Projects Inc. (COLAB): Ephemera 1978-1985
"Art Direct" Mail-Order Catalogue,1982, Collaborative Projects Inc. "Young artists who arrived in New York in the 1970s confronted a depressing reality, says Marc Miller of Gallery 98. "The city teetered on bankruptcy; housing was either too expensive or
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Abba to Zappa: 1970s Rock Gods and other Music Legends - in photos
"The seventies: hectic, exciting, creative, constantly reinventing itself, full of self-confidence, sometimes tiresome, but never for long. What I'm saying is nothing new. Many have said it before me in different words, but that doesn't make it any less t
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Car Cutaway Illustrator Jiro Yamada Turned Technical Briefs Into Fine Art - Flashbak
When you opened a car magazine in the 1980s you gasped at a detailed cutaway drawing you were looking at the work of Jiro Yamada
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How To Kill: A 6-Part Guide For Urban Assassins 1973-1984 - Flashbak
Published as a single issue in 1992, the six volumes of the How To Kill series (1873 - 1984), are guides to death by design.
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The Outlaws: On The Road With A 1960s Biker Gang - Flashbak
When photographer Danny Lyon joined the Chicago Outlaws bikers, his subsequent book The Bikeriders captured a rebellious subculture.
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The Jim Sharman Diaries: Behind the Scenes on the Rocky Horror Show, 1970s - Flashbak
Original script notes and behind the scenes photos of the Rocky Horror Show from director Jim Sharman's diaries
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Blowing Tobacco Smoke Up The Bum And Other Ways To Return The Dead To Life, 1787 - Flashbak
In 1787, the Humane Society said that blowing tobacco smoke up their bum could resuscitate "persons apparently dead from drowning".
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Inside NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center, c.1966 - Flashbak
A look around the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center underground facility.
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