Lee conceives of her work as less about creating beautiful pictures, and more about investigating notions of identity and the uses of vernacular photography.

"Snapshots" is right in line with the museum's continuing interest in vernacular photography, that is, the many varieties of photograph made without art in mind.

Closely related to vernacular photography is found photography, which in one sense refers to the recovery of a lost, unclaimed, or discarded vernacular photograph or snapshot.

The use of vernacular photography in the arts is almost as old as photography itself.

Vernacular photographs also have become popular with art collectors and with collectors of found photographs, some curators have begun to exhibit vernacular photography.

An avid hobbyist in the field of vernacular photography (amateur photography)

African American vernacular photography.

The gallery is devoted entirely to what is sometimes called vernacular photography, the sort that accumulates in drawers and attics and ends up for sale at church fairs.

Living near one of the largest flea markets in Berlin, he had already amassed a rich, deep, and varied collection of vernacular photography which formed the raw material for many of his works.

Something bothersome also lurks below the surface concerning the show's assumptions about the nature and purpose of vernacular photography.