‘AUTO-PHOTO: A Life in Portraits’

Book LAUNCH

When: 5th October – 3pm

Where: Level 2, Perry St Building, Collingwood Yards

Book Signing: Meet Alan Adler, the iconic figure responsible for the Flinders St Photobooth for over 50 years. Also meet Jessie Norman and Christopher Sutherland the couple who have taken on Alan’s legacy and now run this famous photobooth, along with others around Melbourne.

This launch event is supported by Bodriggy Beer, is free to attend and everyone is welcome.

Copies of Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits will be available to purchase at the event – AUS$48

Details

Co-published by Perimeter Editions and the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits tells the story of Alan Adler, a man who is likely the most photographed person in Australia, and is also perhaps the oldest and longest-serving photobooth technician in the world.

Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits features hundreds of images of Alan, from the 1970s to now, alongside texts by Patrick Pound, Catlin Langford, and Daniel Boetker-Smith. The book also includes an interview with Alan Adler, Jessie Norman, and Christopher Sutherland. This book is an ode to a man who, by sustaining the production of photographs, actively lives through them.

256 pages, 22 x 14.7cm, section-sewn softcover

Publication supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation.

All photographs by Sally Kaack.