‘The snapshot played, I’m sure, a hither to unrecognised role in the creation of seaside mythology. When the sun shone – as of course it always did in our childhood memories of hot sand, warm seas, sunburn, lotion, and ice cream – it unleashed the combined recording power of millions of Kodaks. But when clouds gathered, when a sharp wind whipped up the waves and turned the sea gray, the shutters were mostly silent; very few people take shapshots in the Rain.’ Say ‘Cheese’! The Snapshot as Art and Social History, Graham King, Collins 1986
Photo: Brighton 2011