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What We're Reading: The Hidden History of the Flashcube

By David Schonauer   Monday January 10, 2022

The Kodak Flashcube—a rotating cube with a miniature flashbulb incarcerated within each of its four mirrored compartments—made amateur photography of interior spaces possible from the mid-1960s onwards. It also reduced the risk of injury presented by its forebears, the single-use luminescent flashbulb. “In the Flashcubes’ dazzling light, families staged domestic …

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