Minneapolis Institute of Art

Untitled (Ha! Ha!)

United States

Medium

Gelatin siver print

Department

Arts of the Americas

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Since 1888, when inventor George Eastman introduced the Kodak #1 camera to the marketplace, amateur photographers have documented everyday life with the push of a button. Capturing events ranging from the extraordinary to the mundane, easy-to-use portable cameras that require little technical knowledge allowed many families to record the lives of their loved ones--at first in black and white, and later in color. These photographs--called “snapshots”--were lovingly placed into albums, envelopes, wallets, and frames to share with other people. These snapshots were drawn from a much larger collection in New York City and represent an increasingly a vanishing material medium. United States, Americas

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