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January 1, 2007
Geoffrey Batchen Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance Princeton Architectural Press, 2004. 140 pp.; 80 color ills. Cloth $29.95 (1568984502)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2007.1

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Rumors of a tight relationship between photography and memory have been circulating since the nineteenth century, despite the many objections raised in both scholarly and fanciful works. A feature of these attacks is the prosecutor’s reluctance to produce evidence. Roland Barthes writes a long meditation on photography as a form of counter-memory that ultimately rests on a portrait of his mother that he allows no one to see. Siegfried Kracauer launches his skeptical study of...