THE MOBILE STUDIO THROUGH HISTORY
he mobile studio plays a fascinating role in the history of photography. In the mid 19th century, so-called ambulant photographers would travel from town to town – sometimes covers – travelled the world with his Rolleiflex camera and north-light studio, photographing mud-masked men in New Guinea, hippies in 1960s San Francisco and burka-wearing women from Morocco. Collected together in the classic book , these portraits show the portable studio at its most powerful.
