I turn my camera on - Spoon
Paparazzi - Lady Gaga
Getting the Picture - Jimmy Buffett
Panorama - The Cars
F-stop Blues - Jack Johnson
Photographs and Memories - Jim Croce
Distant Camera - Neil Young
Click, click, click, click - Bishop Allen
Camera - REM
Every Picture Tells a Story - Rod Stewart
Into the Lens - Yes
Pictures of Lilly - The Who
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Renaissance – Camera, Camera.
It’s far from their best work, but you can’t go too far wrong with Annie Haslam on the vocals.
Family Snapshot by Peter Gabriel
Interestingly, these are the same song. The Yes version came first; the Buggles were both members of Yes at the time. When that lineup of Yes split up, the Buggles reformed and recorded their own version.
Bread - If
I’ll raise you Paparazzi by Jethro Tull (Under Wraps album)
Also Loudon Wainright “Picture”
“Take Another Picture” - Quarterflash
“Night Photographs” - Barenaked Ladies
“Photo Jenny” - Belle & Sebastian
Not really about photography despite the title.
Jonathan Coulton - Flickr
ETA: Upon rereading the OP, not sure it would really help your friend – the only video that can possibly make sense for this song has already been made.
If I Had a Talking Picture of You
Oingo Boingo - Pictures of you
Ah, nice suggestion. And an obscure one too. As a long time, BNL fan (“We’re calling them BNL now?”), this has always been a favorite of mine. I even met my wife at a BNL show!
"In photo one… a flower… Photo two is a drunk and naked girl… "
Ian Anderson: Photo Shop
Flash Bang Wallop (What a Picture, what a Photograph). From the British musical Half A Sixpence.
“Easter Parade”: “The photographers will snap us, / And you’ll find that you’re / In the rotogravure.”
Travis Walking Around in the Sun
Depeche Mode’s first ever released track from 1980, Photographic
“I take pictures … photographic pictures …”
If you’re not prejudiced against country music - Jamey Johnson’s In Color fits the bill.
I thought I would be the first to mention this gem.