“The idea that the snapshot would be thought of as a cult or movement is very tiresome to me and, I'm sure, confusing to others. It's a swell word I've always liked. It probably came about because it describes a basic fact of photography. In a snap, or small portion of time, all that the camera can consume in breadth and bite and light is rendered in astonishing detail: all the leaves on a tree, as well as the tree itself and all its surroundings.”
![“I am a pationate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images, it comes closest to the truth ... the snapshooter['s] pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection which is exactly their appeal and their style.” quote by Lisette Model](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e8c/lisette-model-30290_appeals_i-am-a-pationate-lover-of-the-snapshot-b_3223023.jpg)
![“[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.” quote by Claude Levi-Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/181/claude-levi-strauss-8995_dreams_photography-remains-servile-to-a-thought_2983375.jpg)
![“There is something about this process, and about the whole 8 x 10 [camera] business, that takes it out of the arena of the snapshot, even though, of course, I'm always desperate for that feeling. I wanted those family pictures to look effortless. I wanted them to look like snapshots. And some of…” quote by Sally Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/014/sally-mann-15174_arena_there-is-something-about-this-process-an_1679241.jpg)
