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SNAPSHOT VERSIONS OF LIFE

by

RICHARD CHALFEN
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19122

 

Popular Press,
Bowling Green State University,
Bowling Green, Ohio

Italian translation available as Sorrida, Prego!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE
CHAPTER 1......................... Kodak Culture and Home Mode Communication
CHAPTER 2......................... Social Organization, Kodak Culture and Amateur Photography
CHAPTER 3......................... Cinéma Naïveté: The Case of Home Movies
CHAPTER 4......................... Snapshot Communication: Exploring the Decisive Half Minute
CHAPTER 5......................... Tourist Photography: Camera Recreation
CHAPTER 6......................... Interpreting Home Mode Imagery: Conventions for Reconstructing a Reality
CHAPTER 7......................... Functional Interpretations
CHAPTER 8......................... Home Mode Imagery in Other Communicative Contexts
CHAPTER 9......................... Conclusions and New Questions
NOTES
APPENDIX........................... Home Mode Questionnaire
INDEX