Making Sense of Other People's Memories · Mar 10, 12:08 PM
Today’s NY TIMES City Room blog includes an interview with author Marvin Heiferman and a review of his new book Now Is Then:
Now Is Then features images from the 1920s through the 1960s, the golden age of snapshot photography. The photos–quirky, elegant, heartbreaking, and heart-warming–both celebrate and question the conventions of snapshot photography. Texts by well-known visual culture critics offer fresh perspectives on the snapshots and their power over us. Unlike previous explorations of vernacular photography, Now Is Then takes a step forward to look at the broader cultural impact of snapshots–why we make them, how we use them, why they become relics, and, most importantly, what they reveal about us.
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