In the article, Family Photograph Appreciation, Richard Chalfen discusses a teenage view
of the relation between family snapshots and home videos. He first explains the value of
personal photos using an example of natural or humanly coerced disasters and the mourning of
visual traces of the past, or in other words, photographs. Family photographs are a very
important aspect of peoples lives and without them we may never remember our past. By
looking at snapshots, slides, home movies, etc, we stimulate our memory of important dates and
events. He asks many questions about memory and video verses photography which will be
discussed with teens he has interviewed.
Chalfen has structured an exploratory project that asked a small sample of thirty
teenagers, living in the Cambridge/Boston areas of Massachusetts to evaluate the relative merits
of using still photography and/or videography as a preferred medium of family photography.
(Richard Chalfen) He conducted the......

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