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American photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard said that masks erased the differences between people. One day in 1958 or ’59, professional optician and “dedicated amateur” photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard (May 15, 1925 – May 7, 1972) bought a few dozen masks in a branch of Woolworths in Lexington, Kentucky. “He immediately liked their properties,” … Continue reading "Ralph Eugene Meatyard : Masks And Dolls" The post Ralph Eugene Meatyard : Masks And Dolls appeared first on Flashbak.
“Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is… the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own. ” – Richard Avedon, photographer of In The American West During the making his opus In The American West (1979 – 1984), American photographer … Continue reading "Before And After: Polaroids then Magic from Richard Avedon, In the American West" The post Before And After: Polaroids then Magic from Richard Avedon, In the American West appeared first on Flashbak.
“I like the timelessness of the photos. Of course, I am a bit of a dreamer and somewhat poetic. Distance and proximity are also what my photos are about” – Mark van den Brink Walter Zapp [O.S. 22 August] 1905 – 17 July 2003) produced the lightweight, aluminium Minox pocket camera in 1936 … Continue reading "The Minox Files: The Spy Camera Photos" The post The Minox Files: The Spy Camera Photos appeared first on Flashbak.
These photos were taken on the beaches of Rochester, the city on Lake Ontario, in Upstate New York. There’s something especially right about looking at pictures from Rochester, what with it being home to The George Eastman Museum, sited on the estate of the Kodak founder. The city is also home to Bausch & Lomb, … Continue reading "A Mid-Century Day At The Beach in Rochester, Upstate New York" The post A Mid-Century Day At The Beach in Rochester, Upstate New York appeared first on Flashbak.
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American photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard said that masks erased the differences between people. One day in 1958 or ’59, professional optician and “dedicated amateur” photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard (May 15, 1925 – May 7, 1972) bought a few dozen masks in a branch of Woolworths in Lexington, Kentucky. “He immediately liked their properties,” … Continue reading "Ralph Eugene Meatyard : Masks And Dolls" The post Ralph Eugene Meatyard : Masks And Dolls appeared first on Flashbak.
A Royal Skeleton in the Chapel JamesHoare Thu, 06/12/2025 - 07:00
In the early 1st millennium BCE, the Scythians burst onto the ancient Near Eastern geopolitical scene in a frenzy of violence. The upstart Indo-European nomads upended the early Iron Age system that had developed in the region. By the late 7th century BCE, they made themselves one of the region’s major powers. But the […]
Unlike some artists, Hieronymus Bosch was famous in his own time and inspired a generation of artists with his groundbreaking style and unusual subject matter. Even in his pieces that seem more straightforward and less fantastical, Bosch often wove in nuanced layers of meaning, moralizing allegory, and thinly veiled criticisms of various societal classes. […]
