Snapshot Exhibit on View in Washington

WASHINGTON - Say Cheese! There's a chance your picture may be hanging in the National Gallery of Art.

The images could have come straight out of the family photo album - birthday parties, farm life, road trips and soldiers at work (and play) during World War II. About 200 anonymous pictures make up the new exhibit "The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978." It's the first show of snapshot photography at the National Gallery of Art and the first major exhibit to study the evolution of such imagery in America.

Curators wanted to chronicle the development of amateur photography from the invention of the Kodak camera in 1888 through changes in technology, styles and …