Annebella Pollen is a social and cultural historian who researches art, craft, design, dress, and photography across a range of periods and case studies. She is Principal Lecturer in Art and Design History at the University of Brighton, UK, the author of The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift: Intellectual Barbarians (Donlon Books), which won a 2015 Swiss Federal Offi ce of Culture Most Beautiful Swiss Book award, and the co- curator of the accompanying 2015–2016 exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery, London. Her other books include Mass Photography: Collective Histories of Everyday Life (2015) and the co-edited collections Dress History: New Directions in Theory and Practice (2015) and Photography Reframed: New Visions in Contemporary Photographic Culture (2018).