ABSTRACT
Snapshots, it is often said, are ubiquitous and probably the most common type of photograph made in the entire world. The habitual photographing of food or many such moments in life is used to signify a social process. The personal motives of visual inscriptions involve psychological motivations as well as obviously social and cultural factors. Different institutions for expression of intimate thoughts include religious confession and, in very different ways, diary writing, various types of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Traditionally, the intimate is a part of life that is hidden from view, a private space shielded from the looks of others. A diary is the traditional form for the expression of this type of intimate thought about lived experience. The former analogue family camera was traditionally used seasonally at special occasions, festivities, and ritual events, whereas the new digital devices are used in a more continuous manner, often more obviously connected to the individual photographer’s regular daily life.
