Snapshots : part I

Snapshots made reference to the relation between firearms and photographic cameras that was also revealed in language, the word snapshot describes both a snapshot or informal photograph as a quick and careless shot. This relationship was entangled with other issues such as fiction and genres, identity and the active role that photographs played in its construction process, the relationship between cinema and photography as two sides of the image in which one can think the other. The pieces that make up the work were a kind of position taking that considered different cultural typologies of photography: scientific photography through signage photography, Muybridge’s images in a piece that identified movement and emotion (the title of his work Human in motion appeared as Human e-motion), some subverting the order of what had been called straight photography, others considering assembly and snapshots as fundamental elements of a “history” of technical images, crossing cinema and photography and even including a small joke about the benjaminian aura. Source: mabelpalacin.com/