The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it.

Elizabeth Edwards, Introduction to "Anthropology & Photography, 1860-1920", p.7, Yale University Press, New Haven 1992.

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