%0 Journal Article
%T Archive of the Ordinary: Jason Lazarus, Too Hard to Keep
%A Shawn Michelle Smith
%J Journal of Visual Culture
%@ 1741-2994
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1470412918782363
%X This article considers snapshot photography and affect through a reading of artist Jason LazarusĄ¯s Too Hard to Keep. LazarusĄ¯s project is an archive and shifting installation of anonymous photographs that donors can no longer bear to keep. It highlights the dual nature of the photographic snapshot ¨C simultaneously banal and emotionally charged, tedious and intensely affecting, private and public, a site of cultural normativity as well as resistance. The article proposes that because viewers of LazarusĄ¯s installations cannot know what specific feelings any of the images previously evoked, they are encouraged to contemplate shared practices of photography and the diffuse affective charge of ordinary photographs
%K affect
%K Jason Lazarus
%K Too Hard to Keep
%K photography
%K snapshot
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1470412918782363