BELFAST — The evolution of the photographic snapshot: 1888-2015 will be on display in the Kramer Gallery of the Belfast Free Library for the month of April.

The exhibit, on loan from the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, explores the snapshot as a self-portrait of our culture. In the 1800s cameras were expensive and photography was the work of professionals, but when Eastman Kodak introduced the inexpensive Brownie camera in 1900 suddenly everyone had a camera in their hand. What do we photograph and why, and what do the snapshots we take tell us about ourselves? This exhibit was guest curated by retired Beloit College professor and Swanville resident, Michael Simon.

The Penobscot Marine Museum is in the historic seacoast village of Searsport, Maine. Exhibits include hands-on activities for children and adults, as well as a ship captain's house, marine paintings, scrimshaw, 19th century Chinese and Japanese pottery, paintings and textiles, historic Maine boats, a fisheries exhibit, and an heirloom vegetable garden. The Museum has over 140,000 historic photographs, and a maritime history research library. The museum is open seven days a week, Memorial Day weekend through the third weekend in October. For more information go to penobscotmarinemuseum.org.