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> [“Reading American photographs is also a way of reading the past-not just the scenes recorded and the faces immobilized into permanent images, but the past as culture, as ways of thinking and feeling, as experience”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-trachtenberg/reading-american-photographs-is-also-a-way-of-reading-the-past-not/)

Alan Trachtenberg

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## More by Alan Trachtenberg

> [“The daguerreotype reproduces what appeared before a lens at a particular moment and never again-its appearance is simultaneous with its disappearance, its death.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-trachtenberg/the-daguerreotype-reproduces-what-appeared-before-a-lens-at-a/)

Alan Trachtenberg

> [“Somewhere between what the lens depicts and what the caption interprets, a mental picture intervenes, a cultural ideology defining what and how to see,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-trachtenberg/somewhere-between-what-the-lens-depicts-and-what-the-caption/)

Alan Trachtenberg

> [“Reading American photographs is also a way of reading the past-not just the scenes recorded and the faces immobilized into permanent images, but the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-trachtenberg/reading-american-photographs-is-also-a-way-of-reading-the-past-not/)

Alan Trachtenberg

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