Like the handwritten script found only in a letter or the incomparable taste of a homemade dinner, the snapshot as an object is quickly becoming a rare find. Albums full of photos are turning into albums of compact discs and online slideshows. Digital photography has taken over. With this monopolization comes skepticism. When is a photograph art? Ad Reinhardt attempted to create the “last” painting fifty years ago. What photograph will be considered the “last”? With the advent of digital photography, everyone is an “artist” these days. Like a series of Campbell Soup cans, photography as a form of art is becoming a dangerously watered down genre. The photograph is losing its charm.
This body of work is a humble homage to the original snapshot. The role of the snapshot as storyteller, both through the image portrayed and the history of the snapshot as a cherished object passed down from generation to generation, is honored with these small and modest paintings.
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