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A Photograph (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.

A Photograph's (n.) true ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠content is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.

A Photograph (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the result of the exercise of human choice in a given situation, namely the choice that it is worth recording that this event or object has been seen.

The Photograph (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠there to remind us of what we forget whereas the painting records what the painter remembers. Given that each one of us forgets different things, a photo, more than a painting is capable of changing its meaning according to who is looking at it.

The Photograph (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠there to remind us of what we forget while a painting is a record of what the painter remembers.