Snapshots
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Photographs made with simple cameras without artistic pretensions or commercial considerations; beginning especially in 1888 with the appearance of the first roll film box camera. Snapshots thus are often recognizable in that they were processed not by the photographer but by a commercial concern.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Katherine S. Dreier papers / Société Anonyme archive
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 101
Abstract:
The Katherine S. Dreier portion of the collection contains correspondence between Dreier and artists and friends (including Constantin Alajalov, David Burli︠u︡k, Marcel Duchamp, Wassily Kandinsky, Man Ray, and Ted Shawn); and art-related organizations (including the Arts Club of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum, the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art).There is some correspondence regarding art purchases and the packaging and shipping of art, such as that...
Dates:
1818-1952, bulk 1920-1951