Snapshots "r" us: the evidentiary problematic of home media
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This paper addresses ways and means by which ordinary people attribute a sense of evidence to non-art vernacular images such as snapshots and related forms of home media. Advantages of using the intentionally ambiguous phrase, “How they looked”, are presented for understanding shifts in constructing meaning and evidence attached to pictures “from the field”. Several image categories involving intersections of home media and mass media are reviewed. Finally some speculation is offered regarding contributions of digital technology to changing the evidential veneer of home media representation.
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In the early 1990s, researchers persuaded experimental subjects into believing false narratives about their childhood, written or told by family members and substantiated by 'true' photographs.
“In the early 1990s, researchers from America and New Zealand persuaded experimental subjects into believing false narratives about their childhood, written or told by family members and substantiated by 'true' photographs.4”
From Digital photography: communication, identity, memory (2008) · cites this paper as [4]
The claim that personal pictures equal identities understates the intricate cognitive, mental, social and cultural processes at work in identity formation.
“Some theorists have claimed that personal pictures equal identities ('our pictures are us'), but this claim appears to understate the intricate cognitive, mental, social and cultural processes at work in identity formation (Chalfen, 2002).”
From Digital photography: communication, identity, memory (2008) · cites this paper as Chalfen, 2002
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- Authors
- Chalfen, R.
- Affiliations
- Temple University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Chalfen, Richard
- Venue
- Visual Studies
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2002-10
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 141-149
- ISSN
- 1472-586X (ISSN-L)
- 1472-5878
- OpenAlex
- W1992228401
- Cited by
- 41
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 7 · 2015: 1 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 20.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Visual Studies (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Photography and Visual Culture
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Visual Culture and Art Theory
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Museology › Photographic and Visual Arts
- Keywords
- snapshots, evidence, meaning-making, digital technologies, visual representation
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