Photographer unknown
Jack and Jill
INV-2197
Photographer unknownNovember 1921
Jack and Jill
Photographer unknown →photographgelatin silver print
Date
November 1921
Medium
Gelatin silver prints (4)
Dimensions
6 × 10.5 cm (each image, appro×.); 7 × 11.5 cm (each paper, appro×.); 14.4 × 11.8 cm (mount, a-b); 15.8 × 12 (mount, c-d);
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Peter J. Cohen
After George Eastman introduced the handheld Kodak #1 camera in 1888, amateurs made millions of snapshots depicting friends and family, travels, and festive occasions such as weddings. Even while solidifying such thoroughly conventional behaviors, amateur photography developed a new pictorial language that privileged immediacy, spontaneity, and accident. Career photographers and art historians—but also antiques vendors and flea-market shoppers—have long recognized the value of the “snapshot aesthetic.” The rise of social media and smartphones in recent years has effectively ended the era of the snapshot as both a printed photograph and an image for a private audience.
Also notable
Works in the same vein
