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Photographs and memory

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

You might know that I am interested in the relationship between photographs and memory. There was a time when people thought of memory as “capturing” the past as photographs claim to. We’re not so naïve now, about either process. Millicent, Margaret Forster’s fictional “ordinary woman“, writes in her diary: It’s become ...