Evocative Objects by Sherry Turkle

Author:Sherry Turkle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MIT Press

Through photographs, each family constructs a portrait-chronicle of itself—a portable kit of images that bears witness to its connectedness. It hardly matters what activities are photographed so long as photographs get taken and are cherished. Photography becomes a rite of family life just when, in the industrializing countries of Europe and America, the very institution of the family starts undergoing radical surgery. . . . Photography came along to memorialize, to restate symbolically, the imperiled continuity and vanishing extendedness of family life. Those ghostly traces, photographs, supply the token presence of the dispersed relatives. A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it. . . .

The force of a photograph is that it keeps open to scrutiny instants which the normal flow of time immediately replaces.

—Susan Sontag, On Photography

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