AMSTERDAM.- At the end of the nineteenth century, the enthusiastic users of the earliest amateur cameras included many artists. What role did photography play in their lives and how did it influence their work? The exhibition Snapshot. Painters and Photography, 1888-1915 sheds a light on this creative process, presenting 220 photographs and 70 paintings, prints and drawings from seven artists. The invention in 1888 of the first manageable, easy-to-use camera for amateurs made spontaneous photography possible: the snapshot was born. The painters George Hendrik Breitner, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Henri Evenepoel, Henri Rivière, Felix Valloton and Edouard Vuillard latched onto this new possibility. Their intimate, personal snaps provide a broader picture of their time, and make it clear how photography and painting interacted. The exhibition will run from 14 October 2011 to 8 January 2012 at the Van Gogh Museum in Amst