Title & Author:

Snapshot chronicles : inventing the American photo album / Barbara Levine, curator ; Stephanie Snyder, director and chief curator.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press ; Portland, Or. : Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, ©2006.

Description:

189 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
"From the collection of Barbara Levine."
"This book is being published on the occasion of the exhibition ... Douglas F. Colley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, on view May 24-July 11, 2005, San Francisco Public Library, April 15-August 20, 2006"--Title page verso.
Collecting photo albums : musings on / Barbara Levine in conversation with Frisch Brandt -- Ther vernacular photo album : its origins and genius -- An album of albums -- A pose between stillness and motion -- Photography's love child: origins of the snapshot.

Summary:

"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."--Publisher's description.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

1568985576
9781568985572

Subject:

Photograph albums United States.
Photographies Albums États-Unis.
Photograph albums
Fotoalbum
United States
USA
1888-1935

Added entries:

Levine, Barbara, 1960-
Snyder, Stephanie, 1964-
Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286043
Call No.: BIB 226130
Status: Available