Photographs make personal history collapsible and rebuilable at will

Evidence

Her own history, we are reminded as one of the angels watches her in her caravan, can in any case be collapsed (like that of Deckard) into family photographs pinned to the wall, so why not build a new history with the aid of photographs? — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 2010

Categorization

• XREF: Ties directly to postmodern debates on the simulacrum and history-as-image, and to the earlier Deckard/replicant identity-collapse thread.
• QUESTION: Harvey is teasing a reversal: instead of photographs anchoring an authentic past, they enable arbitrary reconstruction of identity. Worth unpacking how this supports/rivals Baudrillard.