What a development: a century of photo wallets – in pictures
A new book titled More Than a Snapshot showcases Annebella Pollen’s collection of photo wallets (the envelopes used by film processors). As a professor of visual and material culture at Brighton University, Pollen looks for significance in ephemera. “A wallet might not seem of much consequence, but the 100 examples in this book show a century of attitudes and taste through the images they enforce – children always smiling, the sun always shining,” she says. Her favourite wallets show women as photographers, such as the Kodak Girl, a character in ads for more than 50 years.