Kracauer's analysis

The first quote I took from the reading is on page 423: "But the now-darkened appearance has so little in common with the traits still remembered that the grandchildren are amazed when urged to believe that it is the fragmentarily remembered ancestor whom they encounter in the photograph."
I chose this quote because my great grandmother had a photo on her wall when I was younger. In it, she is about 16 years old and dressed very differently than I'd ever seen and she's laying on her stomach touching her toes to her forehead. My grandmother could hardly move and slept on a special bed- how was I to believe she at one point could touch her toes to her forehead??! This quote is true in my life because when you see an older photo you instantly are like, "Really? That's you?".  So I just like how true the quote is even though it's not in plainer terms.
    The second quote I found interesting is: "The last image of a person is that person's actual 'history'." This quote also rings true to me, but is interesting because at the same time would the last picture of me show my history to others? Would it be that worthy of a picture? My uncle recently passed away, and I know the last picture that I have of him shows that he is a happy, fun, care-free man. But that's my last picture of him. If there is another picture of him going through the illness that lead to his death, does that mean that his history is only what shows through in his illness? Or would a smile in that same photo change it all?

This picture is a picture I took with my cell phone at work. After work there was a carnival and we all stayed an extra ten minutes to race the kindergarten tricycles. It's just funny to think back that we all after work on a Friday decided tricycle riding was the thing to do.