PHILADELPHIA IN COLOR Launch Party!
Friday, October 16, 2026 at Philadelphia Ethical Society
To celebrate publication day and say thanks, please join us for a book presentation and launch party at the Ethical Society on Rittenhouse Square.
Photo contributors, sponsors, Kickstarter donors and 2025 Fund Drive donors who are due to receive copy can pick up their book(s) at the event. If you can't make it, no problem--we'll mail it to you the following week.
PLEASE NOTE: Prepaid pick-up at the event applies only to Spring 2025 Kickstarter and December 2025 Fund Drive donors, not to any regular preorders purchased since September 1, 2026 on phillyincolor.org or Hidden City Mercantile. Books will ship starting Monday, October 19, 2026.
Thursday, October 22, 2026, 6PM at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia
Hear from editors Nathaniel Popkin, Alyssa Shea, Peter Woodall, and Alison Zeidman in an engaging talk, slideshow, and moderated conversation by Melissa Minds VandeBurgt about the making of this remarkable visual history. The photographs, drawn from the collections of celebrated photographers and architects including Stephen Shore, Denise Scott Brown, Laurie Olin, and Harvey Finkle, alongside dozens of amateur photographers and family archives, reveal a city that is passionate, proud, resilient, enduring, and unapologetically Philly.
Sunday, October 25, 2026, 1-2PM at The Barnes Foundation
Enjoy a presentation about the Philadelphia in Color 1950-1990, followed by a discussion with editors Nathaniel Popkin, Alyssa Shea, Peter Woodall, and Alison Zeidman, moderated by the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Peter Barberie.
Books will be available for purchase.
Registration includes access to the Barnes collection and Noguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America.