snapshottery

English

Etymology

snapshot +‎ -ery

Noun

snapshottery (uncountable)

1. (photography, chiefly derogatory) The practice of taking snapshots; the style or characteristics of snapshots.
   • 1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope Entertains Several Ladies”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 147:

     He carried a sheaf of photographs. Some were large and were regularly mounted; others were but the informal products of snapshottery.

   • 1966, Jim Hunter, chapter 6, in The Flame,‎^[1], New York: Pantheon, page 40:

     There was a series of ‘studies’ of the school buildings and grounds, in various lights, consciously trying to avoid the snapshottery which had been his previous manner.

   • 1999, Reuel Golden, “Alvin Langdon Coburn”, in Masters of Photography‎^[2], London: Carlton, published 2008, page 56:

     [He] strove to demarcate his practice from professional photography on the one hand, and mere snapshottery on the other […]