Flashbak - Everything Old Is New Again

Libby Hall (1941-2023) was a friend. When she died last year at age 81, she let behind an archive that speaks of her talent as a street and press photographer, writer and collector, most notably of vintage dog photographs which now live at London’s Bishopsgate...

“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to the Asian influenza.'”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death
© Kurt Vonnegut, Jr National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution...

Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction writing, impressive ‘lamb chops’  – of which he said: “They became a permanent feature of my face, and it is now difficult to believe early photographs that...

“This, dear boy, not to put too fine a point on it, is a f***ing lie. When it is 11am in Jamaica, it is 4pm in dear old England and it is carelessness of this kind that makes my eyes steel slits of blue.”
– Letter to James Bond author Ian Fleming
Many fans of Ian Fleming’s James Bond books wrote to the author. Some correspondents offered advice, such as this letter from Geoffrey Boothroyd, who admonished Fleming for the ‘deplorable taste in firearm” and identified a Walter PPK gun as more effective...