Snapshot photography : the lives of images

Snapshots capture everyday occasions. Taken by amateur photographers with simple point-and-shoot cameras, snapshots often commemorate something that is private and personal; yet they also reflect widely held cultural conventions. In this book, Catherine Zuromskis examines the development of a form o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zuromskis, Catherine (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT c2013
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: The social life of snapshot photography
  • 2. Intimate exposures
  • 3. Icons of intimacy and portraits of perversity
  • 4. "Ordinary pictures" in the Modern Art Museum
  • 5. Andy Warhol's snapshots: from the Factory to America
  • 6. Nan Goldin at the limits of photographic possibility
  • 7. Conclusion: Afterlife