"Levels of reality that had not been accounted for throughout history became visible and documented. Any individual with a camera could, by clicking a button, turn a previously unnoticed and unacknowledged segment of the world a part of collective memory. Photography has chipped into the unified Great Narrative by breaking it up into splinters of individually created narratives in art."

Éva Forgács, From Photo to Object, Exposed Memories, Family Pictures in Private and Collective Memory, 2010.