A Selection of Snapshots Taken by Felix Gonzalez-Torres brings together private photographs that resist the conventions of both documentary and artistic authorship.

The snapshots do not seek to construct a coherent narrative or to elevate the personal into spectacle. Instead, they operate through restraint, intimacy, and fragmentation.

Taken in everyday situations, the images register moments of proximity, absence, and shared time. Their apparent informality conceals a precise sensibility: framing is casual, yet deliberate; subjects remain partially anonymous; meaning emerges through accumulation rather than emphasis. The photographs function less as representations than as traces—of relationships, gestures, and lived duration.

Within the context of Gonzalez-Torres’ broader practice, the snapshots extend his sustained engagement with loss, love, and temporality. They shift attention away from the monumental toward the ephemeral, proposing photography as a quiet but persistent form of presence. The book does not claim completeness; it insists instead on selection, vulnerability, and the political charge of intimacy.