The Victorian family’s ideals and its terrors are one and the same structure

Evidence

Between Ibsen and Struwwelpeter there exists a deep affinity. It is of the same kind as the frozen likeness between all family members in the flashlight photographs of nineteenth-century albums. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 107

Categorization

Category: Connection Points

• XREF: The frozen flashlight family photograph as the emblem of damaged intimacy connects to Roland Barthes on the punctum of photographs and to the family portrait gallery in Camera Lucida.