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Review of publication More than a Snapshot: A Visual History of Photo Wallets by Annebella Pollen
No full textThis review is of 'More than a Snapshot' published by Four Corners (Irregulars Number 10). The subject of the book is the frequently overlooked printed photo wallets within which all amateur commercially processed photographs and negatives produced between 1908 to the 1990s were stored. Using images from her own collection of photo wallets, the author of this book, Annebella Pollen, presents a visual history of the photo wallet throughout this period
The Photo Vault: Annebella Pollen
No full textThe Photo Vault, founded by Austrian photographer, collector and publisher Lukas Birk, is described as 'a journey into Vernacular Photography, archives, collecting and photo books. The Photo Vault steps into a hidden world filled with forgotten snapshots, dusty family albums, and gems of visual history to be uncovered. Join us as we embark on an exhilarating tour into the heart of collecting, curating and creating artworks with archival materials around the globe. Lukas Birk takes you on a voyage filled with exclusive interviews featuring renowned artists who draw inspiration from vernacular photography, collectors who have dedicated their lives to amassing incredible troves of images, and curators who curate exhibitions that bridge the gap between past and present. We will dive into obscure archives and discuss at length with those behind the making of photobooks, exhibitions and historical narratives.' In November 2023, Lukas Birk interviewed Annebella Pollen about her interest in rejected photographs and photographic ephemera as prevailing themes across her research and writing. The resulting 45 minute podcast, episode 6 of the series, was launched in New Year 2024 via YouTube, Spotify and Apple
On Not Looking Jewish:Visualising Submerged Memories and Appearances
Full text linkArticle for a Special Issue of the journal Textile on the subject, 'Picturing Jewish Dress: Researching Belonging and Identification Through Historical Visual Sources'. Annebella Pollen in conversation with Barbara Loftus.For more than 25 years, artist Barbara Loftus, born 1946, has developed a substantial body of work, across figurative painting, book works and creative documentary film, rooted in her experience as a second-generation Holocaust survivor. Loftus’s mother, Hildegard Basch [1917–2007], was born into an assimilated middle-class Jewish family but the securities of her comfortable life in Berlin were devastated by the catastrophic events of Nazi Germany. While Hildegard was able to take refuge in England in 1939, the rest of her family - Loftus’s grandparents Sigismund and Herta, and her uncle Heinz - were transported to Auschwitz Birkenau in 1942 and perished in the camp. In August 2021, cultural historian Annebella Pollen visited Loftus’s studio in Brighton, UK, to discuss the enduring themes of her artistic practice and, particularly, Loftus’s use of photographs and dress as sources and methods for exploring Jewish identity and post-memory
More Than a Snapshot: A Visual History of Photo Wallets - Interview with Annebella Pollen
No full textA short illustrated interview with Annebella Pollen, with a focus on the book More than a Snapshot: A Visual History of Photo Wallets. The interview was organised by Lomography Magazine. Lomography began in 1992 as an international photographic society for young film enthusiasts using outmoded analogue cameras; it has since become a major organisation with a magazine, a series of shops and an online community forum with over a million contributors
The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift: Intellectual Barbarians. Annebella Pollen, Donlon Books, 2016. 228 pp., 68 b&w and 40 col. illus., cloth, £35.00. ISBN: 9780957609518.
Full text linkA book review of The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift: Intellectual Barbarians. Annebella Pollen, Donlon Books, 2016. 228 pp., 68 b&w 40 col. illus., ISBN: 9780957609518This is a beautiful and intriguing book that tells a fascinating story about a little-known form of alternative modernist design and craft practice. Published by the independent Donlon Books and written by Annebella Pollen as part of an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded Fellowship, it draws on numerous archival sources from public and private collections, and includes over a hundred largely unseen images in black and white, and colour
More Than a Snapshot: A Visual History of Photo Wallets - Interview with Annebella Pollen
No full textA short illustrated interview with Annebella Pollen, with a focus on the book More than a Snapshot: A Visual History of Photo Wallets. The interview was organised by Lomography Magazine. Lomography began in 1992 as an international photographic society for young film enthusiasts using outmoded analogue cameras; it has since become a major organisation with a magazine, a series of shops and an online community forum with over a million contributors
Correspondence Course: Letters on Photography by Kim Beil and Annebella Pollen
No full textCorrespondence Course began as a creative adventure during the confinement of Covid lockdowns. While the doors to many museums and archives were still locked, two historians of visual culture, Annebella Pollen and Kim Beil, sent each other, by post, photographic curiosities and ephemera as gifts and as writing prompts. The resulting eight essays are written as personal letters. They are informal, reflective takes on photographic history and collecting, with research folded into autobiographical stories. The project takes its name from the first item sent out across the sea: a guide for a 1960s educational course on camera technique taught remotely, via post. A series of eight illustrated essays, c.1000 words each, published in Photomonitor magazine's online quarterly 'Experiments' theme, from 2024
Correspondence Course: Letters on Photography by Kim Beil and Annebella Pollen
No full textCorrespondence Course began as a creative adventure during the confinement of Covid lockdowns. While the doors to many museums and archives were still locked, two historians of visual culture, Annebella Pollen and Kim Beil, sent each other, by post, photographic curiosities and ephemera as gifts and as writing prompts. The resulting eight essays are written as personal letters. They are informal, reflective takes on photographic history and collecting, with research folded into autobiographical stories. The project takes its name from the first item sent out across the sea: a guide for a 1960s educational course on camera technique taught remotely, via post. A series of eight illustrated essays, c.1000 words each, published in Photomonitor magazine's online quarterly 'Experiments' theme, from 2024
Photography Reframed:Always, Already, Again
No full textA 4,500-word introduction to the edited collection, Photography Reframed, in the form of a written conversation between the two editors, Ben Burbridge and Annebella Pollen. The introduction reviews the status and development of photography studies, and the book's contribution to it, reflecting on disciplinary approaches, recent changes in higher education, the museum and gallery sector, social and political contexts. The introduction puts the book's contents into critical and historical context, and outlines the collective conditions of its emergence and construction.Extract from opening section:BB: Why ‘Photography Reframed’?AP: First of all, we are taking photography as our subject and placing it withina range of different contexts, through the contributions of authors from a range of different backgrounds. We do this in the understanding that the scholarship on photography is growing in scale and complexity and yet there is much more to be said. The heterogeneity of photography – universal, increasingly ubiquitous and yet wildly diverse in its purposes and meanings – is one of its most excitingaspects for its students and scholars. We’ve tried to capture some of that diversity and potential here by taking photography studies out of its familiar territories through new case studies and new approaches to its interpretation, and via new voices as well as those of established researchers and practitioners.We are also reframing photography in the sense that the form and content ofthe book has been developed through an iterative process. What readers hold intheir hands is the result of a series of reframings, revisions and reinterpretationsthat have developed over more than five years of research and debate. Thecontents of the book, and the further materials that surround it, have beenshaped by a wide range of contributors and editors, and have emerged throughan extended period of conversations, commissions, public events and onlinepublishing
A Hundred Years of Photo Wallets:Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration's Book of the Month
Full text linkAn interview with Annebella Pollen, author of More Than a Snapshot: A Visual History of Photo Wallets, which was selected as the May 2023 Book of the Month by the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration
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