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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>I’m curious about who’s lurking here. I suspect we have archivists, curators and students who may do any number of things in the future. Strikes me that we might have very different notions and working definitions of “family photograph.” Can we share? <BR>
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I tend to say various things like “a photograph used in the family as a metaphor for that family, an ideological device that defines family, a statement both internally directed and externally directed that manifests an ideal, a record of a family.” <BR>
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How do these past uses cling to a photograph ( or group of photographs) as it/they moves away from original use?</SPAN></FONT>
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