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The Snapshot & Found Photographs Family Photographs and Albums; Nostalgia and the Snapshot The Snapshot 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. The poses may be formulaic, but a photograph of loved ones can evoke a deep affective response. Excerpt from author: A snapshot is no In today's digital age, snapshot photography has become even more ubiquitous and ephemeral -- and, significantly, more public.t only a record of interpersonal intimacy but also a means of linking private symbols of domestic harmony to public ideas of social conformity. The snapshot has invaded the ultimate refuge – the family album Found Photographs Also known as Vernacular photography Found photography is a genre of photography and/or visual art based on the recovery (and possible exhibition) of lost, unclaimed, or discarded photographs. It is related to vernacular photography, but differs in the fact that the "presenter" or exhibitor of the photographs did not "shoot" the photograph itself, does not know anything about the photographer, and generally does not know anything about the subject(s) of the photographs. Vernacular photography [1] is the creation of photographs, usually by amateur or unknown photographers both professional and amateur, who take everyday life and common things as subjects. Closely related to vernacular photography is found photography, which in one sense refers to the recovery of a lost, unclaimed, or discarded vernacular photograph or snapshot. Found photos are often found at flea markets, thrift and other secondhand stores, yard sales, estate and tag sales, in dumpsters and trash cans, between the pages of books, or literally just "found" anywhere. wikipedia Found Photographs SECONDHAND August 4, 2014 – May 31, 2015 Pier 24, San Francisco Unknown photographers, Employee badges, 1920s – 1960s This chronological series documents almost every year of its subject’s life, rom 1936 to the present, with the exception of a conspicuous pause during World War II (1939-45). The year the pictures began, she was a 16 year old girl from Tilburg, Netherlands. The pictures were taken in a carnival shooting gallery. Every time she hit the bull’s- eye, the shutter of a camera was triggered, taking her portrait in firing pose, which she received as a prize. Erik Kessels Erik Kessels, Album Beauty, 2012 Erik Kessels, Album Beauty, 2012 Unknown photographers, 1930s – 1940s Maurizio Anzeri, Lucia, 2010 Maurizio Anzeri, Maurizio Anzeri, Maurizio Anzeri,.

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