family projections
Flusser insisted that photographs project possibilities, rather than “capturing” or “recording” or “reproducing” anything. So all those lovely shots you may have of yourself as a very young child, smiling at the camera–or not...
Category: family
Educated and Groundless
I finished reading Educated yesterday, Tara Westover’s memoir of her survivalist Mormon upbringing and subsequent separation from it. By her account, the separation was achieved by means of formal education. Only once in the book...
Cultural Minimum
There are many thoughtful and suggestive definitions of “culture,” but I can’t remember any thoughts about the minimum. What is necessary and/or sufficient about a given set of circumstances for it to be rightly...
Family Lexicon
Before I learned of Ginzburg’s book, I used the phrase “family lexicon”(incorrectly, I think in retrospect) as the domain name for a website of family photographs. The project crashed and burned for the best...