Snapshot versions of life / Richard Chalfen.
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TextPublication details: Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, c1987.Description: 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780879723873
- 0879723874
- 9780879723880 (pbk.)
- 0879723882 (pbk.)
- 770.1 CHA
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Snapshot Versions of Life is an important foray into the culture of photography and home life from an anthropologist's perspective. Examining what he calls "Home Mode" photography, Richard Chalfen explores snapshots, slide shows, family albums, home movies, and home videos, uncovering what people do with their photos as well as what their personal photos do for them.
Chalfen's "Polaroid People" are recognizable--if ironically viewed--relatives, uncles, aunts, and All-American kids. As members of "Kodak Culture" they watch home movies, take pictures of newborn babies, and even, in their darker moments, scratch out the faces of disliked relatives in group photographs. He examines who shoots these photos and why, as well as how they think (or don't) of planning, editing, and exhibiting their shots. Chalfen's analysis reveals the culturally structured behavior underlying seemingly spontaneous photographic activities.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 169-196.
Kodak culture and home mode communication -- Social organization, kodak culture, and amateur photography -- Cinema naivete: the case of home movies -- Snapshot communication: exploring the decisive half minute -- Tourist photography: camera recreation -- Interpretating home mode imagery: conventions for reconstructing a reality -- Functional interpretations -- Home mode imagery in other communicative contexts -- Conclusions and new questions -- Notes -- APPENDIX: Homemode questionnaire.