“I came up with the genius ideas of being a rockstar photographer. I could still feel important and literally hide behind a sexy camera. I dropped out of school. I was going to be the next David Bailey, Helmut Newton, or Irving Penn, or even better, a combination of all of them.” – DB Burkeman … Continue reading "Photographer’s Lost Photos of Punk and New Wave Stars of the 1970s" The post Photographer’s Lost Photos of Punk and New Wave Stars of the 1970s appeared first on Flashbak.

“…like almost everything else good that’s ever happened to me, by the sheerest stroke of luck, I had a very good friend at Look, which gave me a job as a still photographer. After about six months, I was made a full-fledged staff photographer. My highest salary was $105 a week, but I did travel … Continue reading "Day Of The Fight: 24-Hours With Stanley Kubrick And Boxer Walter Cartier" The post Day Of The Fight: 24-Hours With Stanley Kubrick And Boxer Walter Cartier appeared first on Flashbak.

These lively prints are from the series Libellus Novus Elementorum Latinorum by Polish goldsmith Jan Christian Bierpfaff (1600-ca.1690) and engraved by Jeremias Falck (1610–1677). These hugely imaginative, abstract and fluid prints come to life on the page. Bierpfaff worked as an apprentice at the Mackensen family of metalworkers in Kracow, a group, who, according … Continue reading "Bierpfaff’s Alphabet of Organic Type (c. 1650)" The post Bierpfaff’s Alphabet of Organic Type (c. 1650) appeared first on Flashbak.

“I definitely prefer the four-horned cow to the one having only two horns” – Alfred Kubin (10 April 1877 – 20 August 1959), 1911   In Alfred Kubin’s bizarre and horrific illustrations, humans appear as skeletal, ghost-like creatures or hideously deformed things. They share surreal and hellish landscapes with monsters, vermin and peculiar animals. His … Continue reading "Terrible Visions of Death And Evil on Alfred Kubin’s Journey Back To The Womb" The post Terrible Visions of Death And Evil on Alfred Kubin’s Journey Back To The Womb appeared first on Flashbak.

German artist Evelyn Bracklow’s porcelain cups, saucers, teapots and dinner service is covered in ants. On some she’s painted a piece of food and then had her hand-painted black ants congregate around it. The effect is fascinating stuff and unsettling. We know that ants exist in abundance, but we don’t want to encounter one on … Continue reading "Painted Ants Scurry Over Vintage Porcelain by Evelyn Bracklow" The post Painted Ants Scurry Over Vintage Porcelain by Evelyn Bracklow appeared first on Flashbak.