Snapshot Chronicles: Inventing the American Photo Album - Hardcover

Snyder, Stephanie; Levine, Barbara; Stadler, Matthew

 
9781568985572: Snapshot Chronicles: Inventing the American Photo Album
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1568985576 ISBN 13: 9781568985572
Verlag: Princeton Architectural Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Today, the photo album is something we practically take for granted, and 'scrapbooking' is a billion dollar industry with its own television network. It was not always so. Before the camera, ordinary families had little more than the family Bible, a portrait of grandpa, and a drawer full of documents. Then Eastman Kodak introduced the Brownie, giving Americans the means to document and record their daily lives. Hundreds of thousands of these cameras were produced, and as a result small collections of photographs were assembled and preserved in an astonishing assortment of albums, with photographs as the raw material for collages, constructions, and text experiments.

Snapshot Chronicles is a visual exploration of the creative outpouring made possible by the camera. Friends, family, travel, domestic life, special occasions, the workplace, farm and city life these were all intermingled in early albums in surprising and dynamic forms. Men, women, and even children became the creators of their own visual biographies, and documenters of previously unprecedented aspects of American life.

Four essayists weave together the history of the photo album, making them not just a part of our past but a significant aspect of Americana. Snapshot Chronicles is designed by noted graphic designer Martin Venezky (It Is Beautiful...Then Gone).

Copublished with the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Stephanie Snyder is Director and Chief Curator of the Douglas F. Colley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon.

Barbara Levine runs Project b, a curatorial services and project management company, and is an avid photo album collector.

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Verlag
Princeton Architectural Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1568985576
ISBN 13 
9781568985572
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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