This entertaining and informative look at snapshot photography offers a fresh interpretation of the snapshot as art and document. King's writing helps the reader to "interpret the snapshot as an artifact of social history that informs us of who we are and how we live (and have lived)"--the publisher. King's text includes a history of the snapshot, discussions of various common genres within snapshot photography, and a chapter on the snapshot's influence on contemporary photography. A well written and fully illustrated book on the most widely practiced form of photography.