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Some suggested reading
Compiled by David Campany, Senior Lecturer, History & Theory of Photography
Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College
The Snapshot
Key book:
Fabian Monheim, Lomo: Just Shoot, London 2002
Others you might like to try:
Albers, Philipp and Nowak, Michael, Lomography: snapshot photography in the age of digital simulation, History of Photography v. 23 no.1, Spring 1999
King, Graham, Say 'cheese'! : the snapshot as art and social history, London 1986
Nickel, Douglas R, Snapshots : the photography of everyday life, 1888 to the present, 1998
Richter, Gerhard, Atlas, 1997
Smith, Joel, Roll over: the snapshot's museum afterlifeAfterimage v. 29 no. 2, Sept./Oct. 2001
Tatay, Helena, Hans-Peter Feldmann: 272 Pages, Barcelona, 2002
Photo booth
Hines, Babette, Photo booth, 2002
Hillier, Susan, 1973-83 : the muse my sister, 1984
Jewell, Dick, Found Photos, Dick Jewell, London, 1977
Rideal, Liz, Photo Booth Collages, London, 1990
Raetz, Markus. Polaroids 1978-1993. (Valencia 1994)
Wegman, William. William Wegman: Polaroids. (New York, 2002)
Polaroid
Key books:
Kao, Deborah Martin, Innovation/imagination: 50 years of Polaroid photography, New York, 1999
Warhol, Andy, Andy Warhol Polaroids 1971-1986, New York, 1992
Others you might like to try
Barents, Els et al, Instant fotografie : Ulay/Marina Abramoviç, John Baldessari, Chuck Close, Richard Hamilton, J.C.J. van der Heyden, David Hockney, Dick Jewell, Les Levine, Robert Mapplethorpe, Pieter Laurens Mol, Markus Raetz, Lucas Samaras, Robert Smit, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, Amsterdam, 1981
Evans, Walker, Walker Evans: Polaroids, Zurich, 2001
Hamilton, Richard, Polaroid Portraits, Stuttgart, 1972
Janis, Eugenia Parry, One of a Kind; Recent Polaroid Color Photography, 1979
The Snapshot and the Family Album
Key book:
Hirsch, Marianne (ed.), The Familial Gaze, New England, Hanover and London, 1999
Others you might like to try:
Batchen, Geoffrey, 'Vernacular Photographies' in 'Each Wild Idea. Writing, Photography, History', Massachusetts, 2001
Bourdieu, Pierre et al., Photography: A Middle Brow Art, London, 1990
Ford, Colin, You press the button, we do the rest : the birth of snapshot photography, 1988
King, Barry, Photo-consumerism and mnemonic labor: capturing the Kodak moment, Afterimage, vol. 21, Sept. 1993
Kuhn, Annette, Family Secrets: Acts of Memory & Imagination, London, 1995
Slater, Don, Domestic Photography in Digital Culture in Martin Lister (ed.) The Photographic Image in Digital Culture, 1995
Slater, Don, Marketing the Medium; an Anti-Marketing Report, Camerawork no. 26., Reprinted in J. Evans (ed.), The Camerawork Essays, 1997
Spence, Jo & Holland, Patricia, Family Snaps: the Meanings of Domestic Photography, London, 1991
Williams, Val, Who's Looking at the Family? An exhibition selected by Val Williams, Carol Brown and Brigitte Lardinois, London, 1994
Williamson, Judith, Consuming Passions, London, 1980
Links
http://www.vam.ac.uk/exploring/photography/?version=1§ion=photography