The snapshot is a concept in photography introduced by Eastman Kodak with their Browniebox camera in 1900: A casual photograph taken without any particular pre-arrangement, often of every day events.
The snapshot also plays a role as concept of artistic photography, see lomography.
In a general sense, snapshot has taken on the meaning of a glimpse of something.
All Wikipedia text
is available under the
terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
Search Encyclopedia
Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!