reaction to Family Secrets

during this analysis of the family Album Kuhn brings up many aspects of the photograph and its relation to the famil unit I would have never before pondered. She says that family pics are in fact what creates a culture within that unit. Like Barthes snipets she discusses the captions written by her mother in the margins of the album. Mentions memory as being a type of archeology that is extracted, investigated, ecetera. There are those who produce and those who comment on the production. The discussion of the character 'Mandy' was a bit difficult for me to follow---and how it tied into the essasy itself . I relate this author's use and understanding of the picture as correlating hugely with Barthes. Although I think she consider's the punctum in the snipet/caption rather than the imagery itself.