TV Snapshots: An Archive of Everyday Life

by Lynn Spigel

Book Overview

In TV Snapshots, Lynn Spigel explores snapshots of people posing in front of their television sets in the 1950s through the early 1970s. Like today's selfies, TV snapshots were a popular photographic practice through which people visualized their lives in an increasingly mediated culture. Drawing on her collection of over 5,000 TV snapshots, Spigel shows that people did not just watch TV: women used the TV set as a backdrop for fashion and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478018283
• ISBN13: 9781478018285
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"