ABSTRACT
According to the inscription the photo was taken on 14 September 1924, when the child was "two years, one month and three weeks old". The grandmother is holding the child with one hand and a black bag with the other. Her granddaughter appears to be looking at something out of the picture. The visible scene, as the photographer has constructed it, is a serious and formal pattern. The album containing this photograph is bound in brown leather with the name "SIGM. FREUD" tooled in capitals into the spine. The photos begin around 1925 and the last photos are of the plaque ceremony in Pribor in 1931. Tom Roberts' photo casts her mother and daughter adrift on an empty sea. Photographs may be the most real and accurate of records possible, yet they are cut off from the flow of time and alienated from networks of lived intentions and emotions.
