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"This book fills a huge scholarly void. Although the snapshot is perhaps the most ubiquitous form of photography, there has been no sustained study of it, only an essay or two here and there, and rarely written from the viewpoint of photography historians. This book provides a good photo-historical approach to the snapshot--its social and cultural meanings through time, its influences on the fine arts, and its contribution to visualizing modern social relations."--Anthony W. Lee, Northwestern University
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Robert Muhn
reviewed The art of the American snapshot, 1888-1978 on August 23, 2018
The art of the American snapshot
A must-read for all photographers--which is now everyone. One main thing that I realized when reading the book, is that the sheer popularity of photography has not changed. The fact that there are an exponentially larger number of images captured, the spirit (and oftentimes the banality of photography) is the same.
To wit:
"Far more than in previous decades, amateurs in the 1940s and 1950s did indeed take their cameras everywhere and photographed everything, creating an almost visual stream of consciousness record of their lives. Nothing was off-limits. As life imitated art and moviegoers saw the intense physical intimacy, their own snapshots begin to reveal far more personal moments, even one showing great passion, then they had in previous decades."
"As the consumer culture racist forward in the 1950s, propelled by television and the advertising media eager to encourage Americans to want evermore possessions, amateurs made many more photographs of their hard-won trophies, showing off, for example, their new car or new refrigerator."
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