At the beginning of Hirsch’s article, the main title describes how the way we frame family photographs and how they also frame us and our lives. The main thesis of this article is how photographic images challenge ancestral history and the way how it affects our way of looking at photographs by what we remember. Hirsch further explains this with key concepts such as family portraits, photographs and post-memories. Family photographs and portraits displayed in frames or the photos that are usually shoved into personal home photo albums that keep a hold of ancestral history and while keeping the memories and moments alive. Photographs are what bonds family relationships together which is the main strategy for challenging and projecting those
