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,‎, 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, 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 […]
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