Flowers speak a language we understand. They tell us of time and its passing. They speak of life and death, enduring, waiting and survival. They speak of hope and renewal. “To be a flower,” Emily Dickinson wrote in Bloom, a poem, “is profound Responsibility”. We’re thinking of flowers as we look at this album  from … Continue reading "The Life of Flowers In Vintage Found Photographs" The post The Life of Flowers In Vintage Found Photographs appeared first on Flashbak.

In 1994, the graffiti on the wall that ran along the Riverside Path in London’s Thamesmead told everyone that “GOLDFISH ARE WANKERS”.  We’ve seen “LESBIAN TURDS“, learned that “Cats like plain Crisps” and that you can “FREE KUWAIT WITH TIGER TOKENS“, but this is the first fish-themed graffiti we’ve seen. Peter Marshall captured London … Continue reading "‘Goldfish Are Wankers’: London Graffiti, 1984-1994" The post ‘Goldfish Are Wankers’: London Graffiti, 1984-1994 appeared first on Flashbak.

The images below are from Columbia University’s collection of commercial stationery, featuring architectural illustrations and gorgeous typography for factories, warehouses, mines, offices, stores, banks and hotels. Industries in this album of architectural stationery vignettes range from livestock, textiles, printing, roofing, and brewing to wagon works, cordage and merchandising.   Columbia’s Robert Biggert Collection of printed … Continue reading "Vintage Architectural Stationery Vignettes" The post Vintage Architectural Stationery Vignettes appeared first on Flashbak.

“These venues have a very ‘talkative’ quality visually – they‘re expressive in design, reflecting aspects of local culture, values, and even fantasies” – François Prost, Love Hotels     There are about 37,000 Love Hotels in Japan. Sex on the clock in a rented room is big business in Japan, catering for 500 million lovers … Continue reading "Sex In A Japanese Love Hotel" The post Sex In A Japanese Love Hotel appeared first on Flashbak.

The Livre de la vigne nostre Seigneur is an anonymous illustrated treatise on the Antichrist, Last Judgement, Hell, Heaven, Christ and Antichrist. It features 15 illustrations that mark the End of Days. What makes the series particularly interesting is its lack of human figures wracked in pain and horror. Elsewhere in the book, it’s … Continue reading "15 Signs of the Last Judgement and End of Days: 1450 – 1470" The post 15 Signs of the Last Judgement and End of Days: 1450 – 1470 appeared first on Flashbak.