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Flashbak: What makes a good photograph? Jürgen Schadeberg: Content, composition and training. In the 1960s, 70s and 80s, Jürgen Schadeberg (18 March 1931 – 29 August 2020) was often in pubs and bars in Glasgow, London, Cambridge, Berlin, Hamburg, Johannesburg, New York, Torremolinos, Malaga, Mijas, Cannes and Paris. We’ve shared Jürgen Schadeberg’s … Continue reading "Jürgen Schadeberg: Happy Hour" The post Jürgen Schadeberg: Happy Hour appeared first on Flashbak.
“When I make a good image, it enters into your brain like a word you didn’t know and stays there in such a way that you can’t remember how you thought about this topic beforehand.” – Saul Steinberg Many of us first encountered Saul Steinberg (American, born Romania, 1914–99) through his hundreds of immersive, … Continue reading "Saul Steinberg Draws A Line Into Your Brain" The post Saul Steinberg Draws A Line Into Your Brain appeared first on Flashbak.
“I think that part of what these pictures are about is the difference between our preconceptions of a place and what, when we get there, that place turns out to be.” – Tod Papageorge, at the beach Looking at Tod Papageorge’s photographs of Los Angeles beachgoers in the 1970s and 1980s is to … Continue reading "At The Beach In Los Angeles, 1975 – 1988" The post At The Beach In Los Angeles, 1975 – 1988 appeared first on Flashbak.
Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks (1905-1963) inherited his parents love for collecting theatre memorabilia. His family had close ties to the leading ballet companies and he was appointed Artistic Director for Anna Pavlova’s world tours in the early 1930s. Paget-Fredericks went on to become the first lecturer in dance in the United States, at the University … Continue reading "Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks’ Fabulous Dance Sketches" The post Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks’ Fabulous Dance Sketches appeared first on Flashbak.
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This is the first post in a series discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage, labor, subsistence, death – of pre-modern peasants and their families. Prior to the industrial revolution, peasant farmers of varying types made up the overwhelming majority of people in settled societies (the sort with cities and writing). And when … Continue reading Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part I: Households →
Less than 30 percent of the world’s surface is covered in land, yet this is still a massive amount of space that humans have sought to explore and exploit. Included in all this land are around 200,000 islands. From the icy Arctic to the tropics, here are the five biggest islands in the […]
Medieval battles were brutal, blood-soaked grind. Clever tactics and strong leadership often mattered, yet true upsets happened only when the weaker side found an edge. Whether better weapons, better tactics, knowledge of the terrain, or an unbreakable esprit de corps. The battles below illustrate moments when determined underdogs defied the odds and claimed stunning […]