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The impact of the humble American snapshot has been anything but humble. Any American who takes a snapshot contributes to a compelling and influential genre. Since 1888, when George Eastman introduced the Kodak camera and roll film, the snapshot has not only changed everyday American life and memory; it has also changed the history of fine art photography. The distinctive subject matter and visual vocabulary of the American snapshot--its poses, facial expressions, viewpoints, framing, and themes--influenced modernist photographers as they explored spontaneity, objectivity, and new topics and perspectives. A richly illustrated chronicle of the first century of snapshot photography in America, The Art of the American Snapshot is the first book to examine the evolution of this most common form of American photography. The book shows that among the countless snapshots taken by American amateurs, some works, through intention or accident, continue to resonate long after their intimate context and original meaning have been lost.
The catalogue of a fall 2007 exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, The Art of the American Snapshot reproduces some 250 snapshots drawn from Robert Jackson's outstanding collection and from a recent gift Jackson made to the museum. Organized decade by decade, the book traces the evolution of American snapshot imagery and describes how technical, social, and cultural factors affected the look of snapshots at different periods.
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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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Sarah Greenough is curator and head of the department of photographs at the National Gallery of Art. She has organized numerous exhibitions that have traveled to museums around the world and is the author of many books, including Andre Kertesz; Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set; Robert Frank: Moving Out; and Walker Evans: Subways and Streets. Diane Waggoner, Sarah Kennel, and Matthew S. Witkovsky are assistant curators of photographs at the National Gallery of Art. Waggoner is curator and author of The Beauty of Life: William Morris and the Art of Design, and Witkovsky is curator and author of Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945.
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- PublisherPrinceton University Press
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0691133689
- ISBN 13 9780691133683
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages288
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