About the Collection

How can an ordinary snapshot rival the photograph on a museum wall?

Snapshots of couples kissing, boys with toy guns and girls smiling sweetly, proud graduates and blissful brides, fashionable city dweller and fatigue farm families, soldiers with their buddies, factory workers on picnics, tourist at roadside attractions, fishermen showing off their prized catch, wonderful aunts and wacky uncles, women named Ruth and Rose, Martha and Dorothy, Gertrude and Rene, Minnie and Irene, Marcie and Ella, and yes of guys leaning on their cars... these snapshots are genuine and authentic.

Many of these snapshots remind me of the photographs of great artist, like Robert Doisneau, Walker Evans, Diane Arbus, Dorothy Lange, Mike Disfarmer, Vivian Maier, and the aforementioned Henri Cartier-Bresson. But these snapshots are artless, in the best sense of the world. They make us think, then wonder, then imagine. They make us feel something. There's a word for the. It's called art.