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"A loss of meaning ensues as family photographs come into public circulation and display, and the question of how memory endures within this process has become of increasing concern. Retaining photographic materiality, along with original meanings previously associated with images, has been presented as one way of defending against loss. This paper argues that this involves a particular dynamics of object-relating...a new cultural treatment of family photographs, within photographic theory and practice, [which] performs a heightened fidelity to the photographic object."

Once mean, the weather's now turned murderous
& i imagine etched into the sidewalk
silhouettes of those unwise afoot.
O bring it on, you cataracts of hap
as on Hiroshima the mad stilbs poured;
as one faint whine enraged a summer day,
the curious & the heedless fried alike.
we are so bent upon our No-Escape:
a Grail that snags all eyes & quells all witness.