In 2003, former investor Andrew Pilara found himself awed by the work of photographer Diane Arbus while attending a retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. With his wife Mary, he ...

Photography that is done by amateurs to capture everyday life is called snapshot photography. Speaking more broadly, if a photograph is taken for non-artistic purposes, such as to document family life ...

Krane Art History Guest Residents Näkki Goranin, left, and Brian Wallis pose in a photo booth that was available in Shain Library on Nov. 13. Wallis gave a keynote lecture in the Chu Room that evening ...

Foreword / Artur Walther -- Introduction / Tina M. Campt, Marianne Hirsch, Gil Hochberg, and Brian Wallis -- Why vernacular photography? The limits and possibilities of a field / Brian Wallis -- ...

This is the realm of “vernacular photography,” the catchall term for snapshots that amateurs have been taking since 1888, when George Eastman introduced the first hand-held Kodak camera, priced at $25 ...

EASTHAMPTON — People reading comic books; dangerous-looking women; men named Dick. Stacy Waldman collects them all, and more, often with a particular client in mind. She buys and sells vintage ...

CRANFORD - From Sept. 19 through Oct. 30, the exhibition, "Snapshots in Time: Vernacular Photography from the past 75 Years" will be on display in the Tomasulo Gallery in the Kenneth MacKay Library of ...

The college will host a symposium for the exhibition Yosooi no atae: Fashion and Vernacular Photography in 20th Century Japan currently on display at the Thorne Sagendorph Art Gallery through December ...

Browse and shop from an assortment of 100 framed quirky photos of everyday life, ranging from a print of the shipwreck “Alice” to early 20th-century snapshots of a vaudeville magician, backyard ...

Among the exhibitions organized to celebrate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of photography, there have been two traveling blockbuster surveys with ponderous catalogues that have inevitably ...