Word: snapshotted
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...snapshot was a movement away from Weston. Weston's genius and stylistic fulfillment was such that, like T.S. Eliot in modern poetry, his influence probably did more to stultify than to stimulate new development in photography. When the photographic reaction to Weston came, it was radical--where Weston's images were classically composed, the new snapshot photography has a haphazard look. Where Weston photographed close friends and nature, snapshooters concentrate on man in the urban landscape. Weston worked n almost total isolation from the influence of mass culture--the new wave of photography is highly conscious of the medium...
STRUCTURED AS AN extended essay on the relation between the amateur snapshot and the work of serious photographers. The Snap Shot also offers a wide view of the present state of photographic art. Included are works from established names, such as Robert Frank and Lee Freidlander and from the less well-known but increasingly important photographers such as Nancy Rexroth. Despite important differences in method and sensibility, all strive to snatch meaningful fragments of modern life. Quickly seen and quickly taken, the snapshot is a glimpse of a fast-moving society. It represents a new approach to reality in that...
...SNAPSHOT approach to photography here yields relaxed, unpretentious pictures but fails to produce photographs that have anything like the authority of complete statements. Dorfman is able at times to make a virtue of her lack of technical bravado and create images that are fresh and spontaneous but too often the pictures lack variety and psychological focus. We see everyone as if we were sitting across the table from them--they sit in some vague middle distance, not close enough for us to scrutinize them, not far enough away for us to see them as figures in an environment. And Dorfman...
Lately it has been possible to seek relief from frenetic and kinetic imagery by looking backward. Publishers are now offering a string of new picture books filled with the ancient snapshot, the static portrait and the severe documentary. Some of them are a bit special: albums of Victorian children and antique pornography. More than nostalgia or a desire for escape is at work, however. Portraits, especially of anonymous folk from the otherwise dead past, exert a peculiar fascination. One broods over them, foolishly nodding and speculating about what the people were really Like and the lives they must have...
...second base, surrounded by the live greenery of the Braves' infield and a cluster of yellow and violet plastic flowers immediately under the platform. Each night, he strode across the field with head bowed, looking up once or twice--precisely when he reached the photographers who wanted a candid snapshot...