Photogaffes: Family Snapshots and Social Dilemmas

Have you taken pictures at a restaurant or funeral, in a church or a hospital?

“Borrowed” pictures from a relative’s family album?

Thrown away family portraits?

Hung a mother-in-law’s photograph in the bathroom?

Sent out a sexy Christmas card photo?



From the author of the internationally known book, Snapshot Versions of Life, comes a new book about light-hearted and serious “photogaffes" or mistakes in judgment when taking and showing family snapshots.



Ordinary people reveal their photography-based dilemmas through personal letters sent to a newspaper advice columnist whose responses clarify bad manners while offering helpful ways to repair personal relationships. Photogaffes is organized into three sections: Film-based photographs, digital snapshots, and mobile phone photography.



Today, everyone is a photographer and will find themselves in these pages. While we are re-inventing cameras, we are likely to overlook questions of how these new technologies might be re-inventing us.