Intimate Life

This chapter discusses the relationship that domestic and intimate life have been played in contemporary art. Basically, how the ordinary Joe like a family member or friend takes photographs and the meaning behind those snaps. The chapter gives some examples of pictures, which are not the most appropriate pictures, but none the less some examples how domestic and intimate life plays a key role in everyday photography. Not everyone is an expert. That’s why you’ll see a lot of photos maybe around the house or in someone’s phone with a lot of uneven framing, blur, uneven flash, red-eye, all those ‘mistakes’ are simply the reason because we are not all professional photographers. I know that first hand, being at family gathers and all the parents want pictures of all us grandkids and I’ll tell one of my cousins to take the picture rather than my grandma, because obviously we know who has the more experience with a smart phone. But I think this type of photography is very important as well, because how the book describes it, most these photos come at symbolic points in family time, and I think nothing is more special than that right there. When doing professional photography, everything is staged. Hair, make-up, background, it’s all set up. But with domestic photography, it is in the moment, and how someone would perceive it in real life. It can have the best stories when taken unexpectedly.