snapshottery

English

Etymology

snapshot +‎ -ery

Noun

snapshottery (uncountable)

  1. (photography) The practice of taking snapshots; the style or characteristics of snapshots (generally with an unfavourable connotation).
    • 1919, Henry Blake Fuller, Bertram Cope’s Year, Chicago: R.F. Seymour, Chapter 15, p. 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, The Flame, New York: Pantheon, Chapter 6, p. 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, Masters of Photography, London: Carlton, 2008, “Alvin Langdon Coburn” p. 56,
      [He] strove to demarcate his practice from professional photography on the one hand, and mere snapshottery on the other […]
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