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“For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: the Real and the Live: by attesting that the object has been real, the photograph surreptitiously induces belief that it is alive, because of that delusion which makes us attribute to Reality an absolute superior, somehow eternal value; but by shifting this reality to the past ('this-has-been'), the photograph suggests that it is already dead.” “All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.” Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography