It is also oddly close to Waikiki but only shows up in a very few drunken vacation snapshots.

Hart was running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1987 when this "vacation" snapshot of him with Donna Rice on his lap surfaced, promptly crushing his candidacy.

In the lobbies, they flip through photographs of head injuries as if they were vacation snapshots.

Not too long ago the only way to put your vacation snapshots on your television was with Scotch tape.

Even Duke agrees it's the best vacation snapshot we own.

Yet, as the first generation of video collectors is discovering, video remains a confounding, ornery medium - especially when it's placed between the silver-framed vacation snapshots and the door that leads to the laundry room.

Stories abound of lawyers who have successfully submitted their children's finger paintings and doctors who have tried to qualify by having their vacation snapshots blown up to mural size.

A FRIEND familiar with my feelings about unedited vacation pictures had the temerity last week to ask to see my vacation snapshots.

His photographs affect the casual look of a vacation snapshot, one you might expect to find clipped to a page of a personal diary.

In the best of them, the artist uses the dogs to convert the vacation snapshot or postcard - a not insignificant part of American visual culture - into something stranger.