Parafiction and the New Latent Image

What do you think of when you imagine a photograph? What does it look like? Do you conjure one from your past, perhaps a favorite childhood photograph, or one of a parent or a grandparent before you knew them? Or perhaps it is one you anticipate making, imagined in the moment that you pull out your phone to snap a picture. Either way, whether for remembered, imagined, or anticipated photographs, our cognitive faculties enact a complex set of associations to conjure such a mental image: we not only draw on our own networks of personal images (our own archives), we