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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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