ABSTRACT
The photograph itself is, of course, an object; it does double duty by fixing the object for people to help an understanding of the importance of objects in holding that which is missing in the archive. In searching in the archives, people might find themselves slightly closer to understanding what the loss has meant by way of two paradoxes. First, in holding still; and second, in movement. Through movement, rather than through the practices of holding still that speak to the principle of archivisation, people might also find a way of marking to the continuation of the past in the present. The object—a marble, an item of clothing—transports people to the time when the object was just an object and not the last thing that remains. The place to which they are transported is not the same as a transportation that takes place in an archive or a museum.
