Abstract Family albums are filled with photographs celebrating the happy times. These represent the high points in life, such as birthdays, holidays, and weddings as well as ordinary moments of domestic life. But what of more difficult images? Rarely included in the family album are photographs of funerals, deaths, and expressions of grief. Consequently, the focus of this article is a private collection of difficult photographs, hidden from view and left out of the family archive; the images unmistakably depict a family deep in mourning. Taken in 1975 at a funeral and burial, the family is pictured grieving their loss in an unusually public way. These images offer a rare opportunity to examine the representation of intimate and difficult emotions in private photographs, while asking questions about the function of the family archive. Using Jacques Derrida’s reflections on death, mourning, and the archive, as well as Roland Barthes’ observations in Camera Lucida, I have argued for difficult images to be included and shared in the family album. Here I maintain that difficult images depicting difficult emotions offer an opportunity to enhance photography’s storytelling capacity in the inter-generational experience of family. This examination is further contextualized alongside photography’s longstanding connection to death.

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困难图像：一个家庭隐藏的悲伤和哀悼照片

摘要 家庭相册中充满了庆祝幸福时光的照片。这些代表生活中的高潮，例如生日、假期和婚礼以及家庭生活中的平凡时刻。但是更困难的图像呢？家庭相册中很少包含葬礼、死亡和悲伤表达的照片。因此，本文的重点是私人收藏的困难照片，这些照片被隐藏起来，被排除在家庭档案之外；这些图像明确无误地描绘了一个深切哀悼的家庭。拍摄于 1975 年的葬礼和葬礼，照片中的家人以一种不同寻常的公开方式哀悼他们的逝去。这些图像提供了一个难得的机会，可以检查私人照片中亲密和困难情绪的表现，同时提出有关家庭档案功能的问题。使用雅克·德里达对死亡、哀悼和档案的反思，以及罗兰·巴特在《露西达相机》中的观察，我主张在家庭相册中包含和分享困难的图像。在这里，我认为描绘困难情绪的困难图像提供了一个机会，可以增强摄影在家庭代际体验中讲故事的能力。这种检查与摄影与死亡的长期联系一起被进一步背景化。在这里，我认为描绘困难情绪的困难图像提供了一个机会，可以增强摄影在家庭代际体验中讲故事的能力。这种检查与摄影与死亡的长期联系一起被进一步背景化。在这里，我认为描绘困难情绪的困难图像提供了一个机会，可以增强摄影在家庭代际体验中讲故事的能力。这种检查与摄影与死亡的长期联系一起被进一步背景化。