Prof. Annebella Pollen
@AnnebellaPollen
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📚Mass Photography; Dress History; Kibbo Kift; Photography Reframed; Nudism in a Cold Climate; Photo Wallets; Art without Frontiers. Now on IG @annebella_pollen
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I’m very pleased to introduce you to my new book, Art without Frontiers. Over 400 pages and over 300 illustrations, it tells the story of how
@BritishCouncil
has used visual arts for international cultural relations in an ever-changing world. (1/4)
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Today’s Observer has an excellent sympathetic feature on the current rise of naturism in Britain by
@wanderingsal
(with small contributions by me) plus the most fantastic choreographed photographs by Pal Hansen. The football image, in particular, is a gem.
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I’m very, very honoured to have been awarded a Professorship in Visual and Material Culture
@uniofbrighton
. I take up the role and title from 1 September 2022. With huge thanks to the many, many friends and colleagues who helped me on my way!
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Ha! It’s 1st September. The Prof can see you now! I’m officially Professor of Visual and Material Culture
@uniofbrighton
today. My brilliant illustrator friend
@joelizaharrison
has drawn me a suitably formidable portrait.
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Today I have been made a Reader in History of Art and Design
@hoadbrighton
. From 1 October I will be Director, Centre for Design History
@CDH_Brighton
. Thanks to everyone who supported me to get here.
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Some very exciting news to share! Thank you
@uniofbrighton
! Thank you
@LeverhulmeTrust
!
Dr Annebella Pollen has been awarded a £100,000 Philip Leverhulme Prize, which she will use to fund a new study into the history of photography by children 📸
@LeverhulmeTrust
@AnnebellaPollen
Read more👇
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My new book! More Than a Snapshot examines a century of popular photography in Britain. It tells this history via photo-processing envelopes - the kind you’d get when you collected your photos from the chemist or got them by post. I’ve been collecting them for more than a decade.
We are delighted to announce 📣 More Than A Snapshot: A Visual History of Photo Wallets by
@AnnebellaPollen
— the tenth title in our beloved Irregulars series.
Out this May, pre-order your copy here ⬇️
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Please allow me introduce my new book, Nudism in a Cold Climate, which examines the history of British social nudism (or naturism), and especially its photographic image. Out on 14th November 2021! Press release below.
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Another highly-worked and symbolic garment from Tampere, Finland, this time from the excellent Lenin Museum. According to the label, this sweater belonged to an interwar political prisoner in the former Hameenlinna prison. The visible mending blew me away.
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Newly out: Verity Wilson’s exciting new book, Dressing Up: A History of Fancy Dress in Britain, published by
@reaktionbooks
I’ve been looking forward to this for ages. First I’m savouring the images… Look at these men dressed as a 1920s council estate!
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@vt_isaac
@guardian
A witless review by someone who reduces the study of dress to ‘old frocks that should be consigned to the attic’. Only fine art painting has cultural depth and complexity, it seems! The only positive is that it will be great to teach with, to show enduring entrenched hierarchies.
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So it turns out if you win a Philip Leverhulme Prize they take out a full page advert in The Times just to tell everyone your name! Extraordinary. My former supervisor spotted it and proudly snapped it…
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Amazing read about exquisite and extinct near-invisible fabric - Dhaka muslin
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A New Power: Photography in Britain 1800-1850 is a fascinating scholarly exhibition
@bodleianlibs
. A must for all photo historians - a rare chance to see rare originals in the flesh, inc by Anna Atkins. Both images attached are also available as fridge magnets in the shop!
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I am today the proud beholder of a University of Brighton Outstanding Research Mentor award! [This is not the award...]
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Hanging out with some wise woven weirdos
@britishmuseum
for the Solstice Late / Stonehenge exhibition takeover by
@the_stone_club
Kibbo Kift would approve!
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After a massive load of work, I’m now Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I hope to get an embroidered patch to add to my collection.
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New book! Photography Reframed, co-edited with Ben Burbridge. 30+ contributors rethink the use and meaning of photographic images, past and present.
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A nice parcel to end the week. Mass Photography now out in a rather sleek paperback! Thanks
@routledgebooks
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Massive congratulations to
@Jojo25216605
who passed her PhD viva today! ‘Millinery for the Masses: Home-made hats, amateur handicraft instruction and embodied knowledge, with specific reference to everyday fashion in the collection at Worthing Museum and Art Gallery, c.1920-1949'
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A personal career high. A few years ago I spoke in Oslo about Kibbo Kift to an enthusiastic audience in a deconsecrated church with a DJ soundtrack of Kibbo Kift-inspired tunes. That was great, but now an original album has resulted, inspired by my book!
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Over the moon to be a recipient! Thank you
@LeverhulmeTrust
The Trust is delighted to announce the winners of the 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prizes. Thirty exceptional researchers awarded in these areas: Classics; Earth Sciences; Physics; Politics and International Relations; Psychology; Visual and Performing Arts.
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Wow! The biggest job in British photography is up for grabs: Director of The Photographers’ Gallery. Massive boots to fill, following Brett Rogers and Sue Davies at the helm for 50 years between them. An appointment to watch with interest:
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Two quid well spent! Today in Worthing’s secondhand shopping pleasures.
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A lovely thing happened yesterday. Hofi Man from Hong Kong - whose 2020 MA History of Design
@uniofbrighton
was disrupted by the pandemic and whose graduation was virtual - bought academic robes and returned to Brighton to seek out his tutors for graduation photos!
@hoadbrighton
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Made by students in the School of Art at University of Brighton this week.
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What a development! A sneak preview of some of the visual content of my new publication with
@4CornersBooks
: online in today’s
@guardian
(also on paper in tomorrow’s Observer). 📸
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Congratulations to
@jayneknight29
who just passed her PhD viva! Jayne’s title is ‘From Company Museum to National Collection, 1927-2023: Telling the Story of Popular Photography through the Kodak Museum Collection’. (With me + examiners
@saradominici_
and Julia Winckler)
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Just died and gone to academic heaven. Lynda Nead in Apollo has described my Nudism book as “thrilling”! Sorry for showing off but I’ve peaked. It is surely all downhill from here…
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Photograph of the year! Kasia Holzer, Brighton
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The best book I have read this year! Suzanne Joinson’s Museum of Lost and Fragile Things. It’s a clever and fascinating tale of outgrowing a cult (which purged possessions) and of piecing together a self through recovering the items that structure a life.
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I’m giving an online talk on 21st April about my next book, Nudism in a Cold Climate, a study of British social nudity and nude photography, 1920-1970. All welcome:
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@ANaturistWorld
Thought you might like to see this article from The Naturist magazine, 1959. It’s only taken eight decades for Naked Yoga to achieve popularity!
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I am very shocked and sorry to learn about this.
The University of Brighton has announced it is closing the Brighton Centre for Contemporary Art, which opened in 2019 and is one of the only galleries to focus on visual art in the south coast city
@uniofbrighton
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My university building is occupied by protesting students in response to over 100 redundancies.
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Found photo, used as a bookmark, fell into my lap this midwinter morning.
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Very pleased to discover that typological classification
@Pitt_Rivers
extends to teacups in the museum staff room
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The Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture (MODA) at Middlesex University is closing and its collections are to be dispersed. So sad to see university museums, special collections and galleries being the first in the firing line when cuts are made.
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Congratulations Dr Harriet Parry
@HairyLyon
@CDH_Brighton
@uniofbrighton
@PhD_Brighton
@DesignStarCDT
Harriet today successfully defended her PhD thesis, A Sense of Place: A Scenographic Interpretation of Place and Community Engagement. Thanks
@imadgination03
and
@DrClaireWintle
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At beautiful
@westdeancollege
learning how to make wet collodion photographs with the very skilled and knowledgeable Peter Renn. My first attempts (as camera clicker and as sitter).
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My brilliant sister (Elizabeth Purtill) has been shortlisted for the Zurich Portrait Prize. Her egg tempura painting will be exhibited at the National Gallery of Ireland between 13 November 2021 and 3 April 2022. The exhibition will then travel to Crawford Art Gallery in Cork.
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Professor Pollen sounds like a seaside entertainer’s name, which suits me well. I stand on the shoulders of giants! 1904 postcard of Professor Reddish, daredevil diver, courtesy
@BrightonMuseums
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A lovely book of ephemera that I have just discovered as a result of announcing my new book about photo wallets: To Have and to Hold, a collection of paper bags from British museums. So many humble, crumpled but emotionally evocative examples! By
@paper_bag_archive
(on Instagram)
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As an academic who has written a serious book on the history of nudism, and supervised excellent student theses on cardboard (contemporary artists’ use of) and denim (global production of), this is like a tongue-in-cheek to-do list. Stay curious, people!
I’m fully behind Rishi’s crackdown on rip off degrees.
You can now get degrees in:
Squirrelling
Nudism
Tofu & Advanced Throbbing
Cardboard Studies
Stodge
Denim & Applied Jeggings
Tarzanology
Nips
Stop these degrees NOW & get our idle school leavers in the fields fruit picking!😡
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Some snaps from last night’s
@LeverhulmeTrust
ceremony. Philip Leverhulme Prizes presented by legendary Prof Rachel Bowlby, glorious interior by
@plaisterershall
, my dress by
@etnodim
, once reworking Ukrainian folk designs, now distributing body armour 🇺🇦
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So pleased to share that my beautiful book The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift: Intellectual Barbarians is back! If you missed a copy because it went out of print, now is your chance!
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Wrapping for the break, but this has squeaked out
@HoP_Journal
. It’s about the creation and destruction of art school slide libraries, and their afterlives. It’s in a special issue about slides in art history. Open Access, help yourself!
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At
@_TheWhitechapel
last night for the
@BritishCouncil
launch party of my new book, Art Without Frontiers. It brought together Visual Arts colleagues past and present plus BC artists and friends. Warm thanks to
@BritishArts
@art_books_
and to
@McDonaldScott_
for a lovely speech.
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She’s here: the Kibbo Kift album! Looking beautiful and sounding even better.
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Well, this amused me, but I’ll take it: three reading tips for a ‘mindful new year’ in the Financial Times includes my nudism book! Not sure it fits the self-help frame but happy to inspire…
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Happy Nude Year! 2024 marks the centenary of the first nudist club in Britain. Today I was on
@radio5live
talking about 1920s nudism (or ‘gymnosophy’ as it was then called).
@NickyAACampbell
said (getting in early) gymnosophy was his word of the year!
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Sue Smallwood collected hundreds of Photo Booth portraits in the 1980s from Kings Cross train station. No Hawkers Gallery in Brighton today turned them into a one-day exhibition to celebrate Sue’s new book, They Came From the Booth. So moving, so touching, so funny!
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In the Photographic Darkroom conference is about to start! With
@saradominici_
as organiser and Jennifer Tucker as the opening keynote. 📸
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Quote of the day, in The Guardian, from a ‘tired teacher in Hastings’: I didn’t think the apocalypse would have this much admin...
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PhD opportunity: 'Dressing to Skill: Women in British Television Costume Departments' (in partnership with the British Entertainment History Project ) - supervisor: Dr. Vicky Ball vicky.ball
@dmu
.ac.uk
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Very excited to be off to Liverpool tomorrow for the opening of
@Tate
’s fantastic new exhibition, Radical Landscapes, which includes some of my Kibbo Kift collections of photography and ephemera
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Spent the day
@ICALondon
courtesy of the brilliant
@the_stone_club
who organised a fantastic line-up of films, tunes and talks about landscapes, art, prehistory and weirdness including
@realmagicbooks
@NoreenMasud
@oldweirdalbion
Jeremy Deller, Bruce Lacey and me.
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Had a lovely three days bringing Kibbo Kift to the Cotswolds valleys thanks to
@popup_stroud
and
@weirdwalk
NeoAncients festival. There was art by Lucy Wright, dance by Boss Morris, comedy by Bridget Christie, a film about Shirley Collins, talks by Zakia Sewell and much much more
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It began with my mum’s love of jumble sales, and ends as a collector feature in
@finebooks
magazine! Hear how I locate materials for my flea market photobook series for
@sourcephoto
and my photo ephemera book for
@4CornersBooks
. Then browse my shelves! Thanks to
@AllisonCMeier
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My amazingly talented sister Liz is a finalist in the National Gallery of Ireland’s Zurich Portrait Prize! Check out her ace depiction of Dermot.
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Brighton has long been a place for love and romance, courtship and flirtation, and I’ve got the evidence to prove it! Come and hear me talk about the sauce on the backs of Edwardian postcards over a glass of wine
@WestPierTrust
on Thursday 28th March, 6pm
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Very relieved to have had a very warm Zoom reception tonight for my book Nudism in a Cold Climate from 100+ members of British Naturism, clothed and unclothed. Also very pleased to see a member knitting! I have a photo in the book of a naturist knitting for the troops in 1940...
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Dear
@TwitterSupport
I’d like to draw your attention to the wrongful suspension of
@NaturistVintage
account, which provides quality, original source historical material on nudism as a social movement. It has a huge and legitimate following and should be reinstated.
@NakedAgePod
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Look at this amazing new egg tempera painting by my big sister (Elizabeth Purtill)! Unbelievable skill.
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In which you will learn too much about my taste in music, my holidays, finances and home life:
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Last chance saloon! There are fewer than 50 copies left of my beloved book, The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift: Intellectual Barbarians. It’s been through three print runs and these are the very last ones. Available direct from the publisher’s bookshop:
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Feeling very lucky to be in Porto for the annual conference
@SoDesignHistory
as a winner of a Design Writing Prize, awarded by Priscila Farias. Thanks to
@4CornersBooks
for the nomination and
@TheEphemerist
for publishing the essay that won the prize!
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A new international photography journal has launched to mark a new photography centre opening in Budapest: “Eidolon is an institution dedicated to showcasing, studying, analysing and appreciating vernacular photography in analogue and digital formats.”
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Within 24 months of your PhD? Interested in visual and material culture and art and design history? New! Opportunity to become a Postdoctoral Visiting Research Fellow with the Centre for Design History at University of Brighton
@uniofbrighton
@CDH_Brighton
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Last summer, the french TV company
@ARTEfr
filmed a documentary short about my book, Nudism in a Cold Climate. The film is newly released! Read all about it below, and watch it here:
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Was just talking about these and their role in the history of photography in the library (for me) and in their role in the history of fashion in the museum (for
@k8debono
). Here’s a photograph I took of the
@SPHLibrary
index cards in 2011 (soon to be published in
@HoP_Journal
)
I'm gearing up for a new research project and came across a photo I snapped back in 2011 of the Library of Congress's now-defunct card catalogue units (their catalogue is now digitized). Anyone else born before, say, 1990, have an immediate sense memory of using these??
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Good morning from Rome! It’s the International Visual Methods Conference
@visualmethods
at University of Sapienza. Look at the tasty tote bag! It neatly also shows the programme for the next three days. 👁️
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I’m speaking at the CAA conference tonight (online, with hideous time difference: my presentation is 11.30pm!) The panel is called Picturing Fabrics: Textile and the Photographic Image and there’s four other presenters whose topics all sound great. See you there?
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I enjoyed putting this together. I’m going to make a playlist for all my books.
Many thanks to
@AnnebellaPollen
for this Kibbo Kift inspired playlist to accompany the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift as our book choice for December. Very limited copies left so don’t miss out on treating yourself (or loved one) if you don’t have a copy.
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Intersections of history of photography, fashion and crime: my review of
@CriminalQuilts
by
@RuthSinger
@Gunnersbury1
for Textile: Cloth and Culture
@tandfonline
The image made the print cover! Free eprints:
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It is a wonderful honour for me to have my book mentioned in the same breath as Quentin Blake! It’s a lovely accolade to be Book of the Month. The Centre for Illustration are offering the chance to win a free copy via Instagram too.
Introducing our May
#BookOfTheMonth
, ‘More Than A Snapshot: A Visual History of Photo Wallets’ by Annebella Pollen.
Enter our
#giveaway
on Instagram for the chance to win a copy!
(ends 5pm Wednesday 7 June).
📔 Published by
@4CornersBooks
.
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I’m on next Monday (16th October). Do come. I’m talking about my uses of photographic materials pushed to the margins. From photographic ephemera in end-of-life house clearances to dismantled 35mm slide collections (and more), I’m looking at what gets wasted and saved.
The 2023 Photology talk series launches tonight in Hastings. Full details below but here are the headlines: 2nd October: Richard Butchins; 9th: Emily Allchurch; 16th: Annebella Pollen; 23rd: Arpita Shah; 30th: Martin Hartley. 8-10pm, The Pig, 37 White Rock, Hastings TN34 1JL. £5!
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I’m very touched to have received one of the late Brian Aldiss’s photo wallets as a gift from
@cwaldiss
. I highly recommend her beautiful, moving photobook, My Father’s Things. It lovingly explores the material culture left behind at the end of a life (including photo wallets).
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Call for contributions: Education for Social Change - The Many Histories of Woodcraft Folk. Symposium 15 Sept. Deadline for abstracts 16 April
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Great to see this out - and in paperback! It’s a moving set of accounts of living through lockdown from the Mass Observers who kept thousands of Covid diaries. Nick has drawn out a set of crosscutting themes and topped and tailed them with insightful essays. Unmissable!
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My new book has landed! Mass Photography: Collective Histories of Everyday Life
@ibtauris
@MassObsArchive
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Good morning to anyone I know who lives in New York! I am doing a residency
@BardGradCenter
this month and I will be giving a public talk on 20th March. Please do come / circulate the info. It is on the joint histories of photography, children and comics:
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Very proud of Liz Bruchet who passed her PhD viva today! "Curation and the archive: entanglements of discourse and practice" was described by examiners as "incredible"!
@hoadbrighton
@PhD_Brighton
@artsbrighton
@ahrcpress
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Quite a day!
#forarthistory2019
Seven excellent speakers on the body politic and its masks, balaclavas, big hats, turtlenecks, togas, uncorseted torsos, shorn locks, proud gingham, socks and sandals
@hoadbrighton
@forarthistory
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Jeremy is sadly retiring as a formal member of staff at Brighton but will still be researching and writing on design history; he remains a core part of our research networks. What a colleague! What a brilliant mind!
What a wonderful treat to listen to Prof Jeremy Aynsley reflecting on Writing on Modernism and Design in Germany this evening. A super colleague and great inspiration!
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On 17 June, from 6-9.30pm, there’s a wild and free Solstice Late
@britishmuseum
to accompany the Stonehenge show. Films, performances, fashion, music and talks by
@the_stone_club
, inc. Jeremy Deller,
@oldweirdalbion
,
@helleborezine
and me (on Kibbo Kift):
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So last night went well. My
#KLF
/ Kibbo Kift historical mash-up won audience vote in 'Why Did the K Foundation Burn £1M'. Join the Kult!
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Ben Burbridge is not on Twitter but as his co-editor on another book, I can tell you that his new publication will be unmissable for photography scholars
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First of the next six essays now released. In memory of pre-Covid charity shopping and car boot sale rummaging...
Introducing the new series our 'Flea Market Photobooks' web articles by
@AnnebellaPollen
... first up, 'THE USES OF AIR PHOTOGRAPHY', 1966
#secondhand
#photobooks
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With Kim Beil (
@kalophile
) in the bookshop
@TPGallery
. Double whammy of our two little books on the front desk! Anonymous Objects (published by
@MACK_books
) and More than a Snapshot (published by
@4CornersBooks
). Called for a silly s(h)elfie…
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In celebration of Caroline Hamilton’s successful PhD viva on the avant-garde dance company, Les Ballets 1933: with supervisors Prof Jeremy Aynsley, Martin Pel and I, plus
@hedleyswain
, Joy Whittam and
@brightonhovenic
@BrightonMuseums
@CDH_Brighton
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Very sorry to learn that the art historian David (Alan) Mellor (formerly of Sussex University) has died. He was a major figure in British photographic history especially. An incomplete outline of his publications and achievements is here:
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New! Fully-funded collaborative PhD studentship between
@artsbrighton
@hoadbrighton
and
@mediamuseum
@CuratorGeoff
on the Kodak Collection and museum histories of popular photography
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I will be sharing some new research from my
@LeverhulmeTrust
project. My paper is titled ‘Seeing through Barbie’s Solar Plexus and Mickey Mouse’s Third Eye: Toy Cameras and Child Photographers’.
What does photo history look like when we foreground the technology that made the images?
Camera-Centered Histories of Photography. Free, online/ in-person conference at California Museum of Photography,
December 2nd. Programme and registration here:
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Tweeting today from the conference Camera-Centred Histories of Photography, at California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside.
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Visited Oxford to talk photographs with historians from Sciences Po, Paris. A fantastic day followed by dinner at All Souls College and a magical after-hours library visit. Thanks to all especially organisers Elissa Mailänder and
@PRBetts17
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Like charity shopping, photos and curious books? Me too! See the results of my car boot sale finds here.
"Flea-market Photobooks" is our latest series of web articles, and it's launching today🙌📚 Here Annebella Pollen will be reviewing worthy, quirky and oft-forgotten treasures of the second hand photobook market... 1/2
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