The everyday practice of photography by millions of amateur
photographers - the family snapshots, the holiday prints, the
wedding portraits - may seem to be a spontaneous and highly
personal activity. But Bourdieu and his associates show that few
cultural activities are more structured and systematic than the
social uses of this ordinary art.
This perceptive and wide-ranging analysis of the practice of
photography brings out the logic implicit in this cultural field.
The norms which define the occasions and the objects of photography
serve to display the socially differentiated functions of, and
attitudes towards, the photographic image and act. For some social
groups, photography is primarily a means of preserving the present
and reproducing the euphoric moments of collective celebration,
whereas for other groups it is the occasion of an aesthetic
judgement, in which photos are endowed with the dignity of works of
art.
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