lines of sight

Triple Canopy podcast Lines of Sight

Hannah Whitaker introduces the podcast with

A non-exhaustive list of uses of photography in fiction:

to invoke reproducibility, duplication, permanence, fixedness, or the superficial
to make iconic or mythological
to symbolize or foretell death
to confuse the literal and the figurative
to show a belief in the continuity between seeing and knowing
to show a skepticism in the continuity between seeing and knowing
to exploit
as synonymous with memory
as synonymous with identity
as enhanced sight
as an alternate reality
as an abstract self