How to look at family photographs : practices, objects, subjects, and places -- What is done with family snaps? -- What happens with this doing? : family, domestic space, and mothering -- The circulation of family photographs in the visual economy -- Family photos going public -- The politics of sentiment : picturing the missing and the dead in London, July 2005 -- Looking again, ethically, at family snaps in the mass media -- Conclusions : family photographs, domestic and public, and the contemporary visual economy