The Art Of The Snapshot

It is not only America photography that has snapshots. I take a wicked snapshot

My dad took hundreds of snapshots of his favorite subject...me...as a baby. I treasure his snapshots especially the one showing my mom changing my diaper on the kitchen table. Some 72 years later, my sister is using this very same table in her kitchen.

I'm with you, Robert.
I would just change your last sentence to
Give me a true to the heart Snapshot over an overdone, over edited image posing as “art.”

Imperfections were inherent in snapshot photography from the start: in addition to the casual technique of the snapshooters, the simple cameras and processing farmed out to labs held to no particular standard meant that the result was always somewhat hit-or-miss. Accidents will happen, and their effect on the existing snapshot corpus can be seen today because they encountered little resistance from the loose standards of the snapshooters. So: the snapshot process generated a certain amount of arbitrariness, which, submitted to the lenient eye of the snapshooters, tended to survive. Both these steps are unique to snapshots. Except when influenced by snapshot photography, art photography doesn’t generate significant arbitrariness; and except when influenced by snapshot photography, art photographers don’t like it.

http://art-of-the-snapshot-question-mark.blogspot.com/

One thing is for sure... snapshots are created by a photographer.

Photographs that have been highly processed, using any of the mass amount of software - target marketed to the artist community, is image art and created by image makers.

Both sell to people looking for that style of decor for their walls, but I ask is either Fine Art?

Open ended question with no bias either way.

Cheers, Barbara
btw I take lots of snapshots of my family and friends and maybe my great grand kids will one day appreciated the dust collecting photo albums....

Snapshots are taken without thinking. A trained eye with experience can take a high percentage of good shots without thinking. A untrained person with a camera might get lucky every 1,000 shots or so and get something good.

I doubt a stranger is going to buy someone's snapshot.

@ Edward... "I doubt a stranger is going to buy someone's snapshot"

or someone's digitally processed image.... ie... filters/vinaigrette/textures... etc.

I think this hits the real issue of a market flooded with billions of images that anyone can create with a bit of skill.... and POD sites market to people who want their own creations printed for their own walls... diy.

So that being said.... do we want to one of a billion and market like crazy to increase our odds.... or do we want to be know as an artist which requires a completely different way of marketing....

Cheers, Barbara

Without the snapshot many treasured memories would be lost forever.
Some only have memories to those that took or are in the image.
Others have memories for the whole world

"Give me a true to the heart Snapshot over an overdone, over edited image posing as “art.”"

This.