Meanings
- derogatoryuncountableartsThe practice of taking snapshots; the style or characteristics of snapshots.
[He] strove to demarcate his practice from professional photography on the one hand, and mere snapshottery on the other […]
1999, Reuel Golden, “Alvin Langdon Coburn”, in Masters of Photography, London: Carlton, published 2008, page 562 more examples
He carried a sheaf of photographs. Some were large and were regularly mounted; others were but the informal products of snapshottery.
1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope Entertains Several Ladies”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 147There was a series of ‘studies’ of the school buildings and grounds, in various lights, consciously trying to avoid the snapshottery which had been his previous manner.
1966, Jim Hunter, chapter 6, in The Flame,, New York: Pantheon, page 40
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