For over 100 years, when you’d often have to wait a week to see your photos, film processors used photo wallets - cheery illustrated envelopes - to return your pictures to you. They showed what subjects were considered suitable for a snapshot: bright-eyed children, laughing couples, adorable pets and perfect landscapes; they also reinforced prohibitions by what they omitted.
On Thursday 29 June join Annebella Pollen (Professor of Visual and Material Culture at University of Brighton) to discuss her latest book More Than A Snapshot: A Visual History of Photo Wallets. The book charts a century of popular photography in Britain: the birth of a new mass leisure pastime mainly marketed towards women, and the growth of camera ownership after the Second World War. It commemorates a time when you never knew if you had captured a treasured memory or your finger in front of the lens.
More than A Snapshot: A visual history of photo wallets with Annebella Pollen
29 June 2023, doors 1830
Tickets £3 with a complimentary drink or £12 with a copy of the book (and a drink)
Village Books, 10-12 Thorntons Arcade, Leeds, LS1 6LQ
Book here: https://villagebooks.co/products/talk-more-than-a-snapshot-a-visual-history-of-photo-wallets-with-annebella-pollen
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