ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on one failed attempt at reading a photograph of Anne Frank. It exposes Sanford Pinsker's claims as founded upon serious misreadings. But his question is important. The chapter attempts to answer Pinsker's question by exploring how Frank is read in relation to photographs in two novels: Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982) and Elinor Lipman's The Inn at Lake Devine (1998). Although Frank is invoked in Tyler's novel in relation to a photograph, it is not a photograph of Frank. Celia Lury argues that the 'terms' of "possessive individualism, in which a free, self-determining and self-responsible identity is constituted as a property" are "currently being renegotiated in a process of experimentation in what will be called a prosthetic culture". Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant and Lipman's The Inn at Lake Devine illustrate the possibilities and dangers of experimental individualism and the limitations of Celia Lury's concept of prosthetic culture.
