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"Photography, revealing the family’s unconscious optics, provides a medium for the exchange of the family’s fantasies, and for the intersection of its looks, for the ambivalent process of loss and mourning that structure family life. As such, it can offer both parent and child ways to acknowledge, to themselves and each other, some of their respective wishes, fears and anxieties, even as it attempts to contain them within its frames."
(Hirsch 1997)