Connection viewer-individuals depicted in images. Postmemory

"[...] the connection between the viewer and the individuals depicted in the images -whether these viewers are contemporaries of the subjects in the photo, familial descendants, or more distant, unrelated, observers- provokes the work of memory in a way we have termed "postmemory": through the inherited remembrances of subsequent generations"

Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer, "Incongruous images: before, during and after the holocaust", History and Theory, Issue 48, December 2009, pp. 9-25