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Now Is Then Snapshots from the Maresca Collection

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ISBN-10: 156898748X

ISBN-13: 9781568987484

Edition: 2008

Authors: Marvin Heiferman, Batchen Geoffrey, Nancy Martha West, Newark Museum Staff

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Deceptive in the ease of their creation, diminutive size, and sheer abundance, snapshots are often thought of as the most innocent type of photography. But snapshots are complex and willful pictures-premeditated, fussed over, and often predetermined. The postures we adopt, the gestures we pantomime, the exaggerated facial expressions we compose and try to hold for a split second are all meant to express the emotional weight of a certain moment. In a time when digital cameras make photography all too easy, it is fascinating to look back on a day when image making was more deliberate. Now Is Then features images from the 1920s through the 1960s, the golden age of snapshot photography. The…    
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Publication date: 12/20/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 8.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English