People Take Pictures of Each Other

[7] Kitts writes the music's mix of "breathy vocals" against the fast-paced piano and "thumping" bass convey both the passage of time and the anxiety of the narrator as he looks at photos of his happier past.

[9] Its lyrics return to previous imagery on the album, such as the oak tree in "Village Green" and the family photos of "Picture Book", leading author Andy Miller to hypothesise that Davies wrote the song specifically to be a closing track.

[18] Davies is credited as the song's producer,[19] and Pye's in-house engineer Brian Humphries operated the four-track mixing console.

[15] In what was likely his final contribution to a Kinks recording, session keyboardist Nicky Hopkins plays harpsichord,[17] along with what author Miller terms a "silly vaudeville piano vamp".

[19] In his preview of the album for New Musical Express magazine, critic Keith Altham wrote that "People Take Pictures of Each Other" "would go well with a line of girls kicking their legs in the air at the old Kingston Empire – if not it would go well without it".

[26] The Kinks first performed "People Take Pictures of Each Other" in concert on 14 January 1973 at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, augmented by additional singers and a brass section.

The show marked the earliest iteration of Davies's attempt at a theatrical presentation of Village Green, a project he titled Preservation.

[29] American rock band the Dig covered the song in 2017, saying in an accompanying press release that the original had only become more relevant over time, further adding: "[T]he line 'people take pictures of each other, just to prove that they really existed' sounds like it could have been written as a commentary on pop culture in 2017.