Visual Trophies.('The Art of the American Snapshot 1888-1978')(Book review)

Among the homely staples of twentieth-century life that have been unceremoniously retired by the microchip revolution--the typewriter, the pressed-wax record, the card catalogue--the camera loaded with film has met a swift and stealthy end. Digital cameras look much like their analog predecessors, but the viewfinder is different--a tiny TV screen, held at arm's length--and we don't have to wait for the mistakes to come back from the drugstore before discarding them. We didn't, in fact, often discard silver-based snapshots, but kept them, with their negatives, in boxes and drawers to await a definitive culling that rarely came. They began to slide into obsolescence before ...