The screenshot is arguably one of the most pervasive digital image forms today, a digital snapshot that documents the visual output of a computer and its operations both extraordinary and mundane. Screenshots are an important tool for the archiving of digital environments, and remain central to the visual methods of both film studies and art history. That said, the nature of the screenshot as a method for capture has transformed radically over the past fifty years. What began as an analog process of photographing a screen or display has become an entirely digital operation, produced by software and stored as files to be transferred, uploaded, shared, and archived. Yet across the many disciplines for which it is an essential tool, the screenshot as photo-object has gone largely unremarked, its complex genealogy collapsed into a single button: PrtScn.