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The "vernacular" image—snapshots, family albums, and industrial records—represents the most prolific and human side of the medium. Luminous-Lint treats these "unintentional" histories with scholarly care, exploring the profound cultural weight of everyday photography.

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Explore the histories of the snapshot and the artifacts of vernacular visual culture.

Contents

Vernacular photography
1Introduction to vernacular photography
Themes
2Vernacular: Transportation
Kodak
3Early Kodak camera formats
Real photo postcards
4Real photo postcards: Animals
5Real photo postcards: African Americans
Photobooths
6Photobooth designs
7Photobooth plates
8Photobooth strips
9Photobooth portraits
Snapshots
10The Roz Leibowitz Collection: Snapshot Disasters
Mugshots
11American mugshots
12Description of Prisoners Received at the California State Prison, May 1909-December 1914
13The Holocaust: Women concentration camp guards
Amateurs
14Lady Ottoline Morrell: Children cavorting at Garsington
Preserving discarded memories
15Najaf Shokri: Iran Dokht
16Thomas Sauvin and photographic waste in China - The Beijing Silvermine project

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