Images address bodily memory

"images have the capacity to address the spectator's own bodily memory; to touch the viewer who feels rather than simply sees the event, drawn into the image through a process of affective contagion... Bodily response thus precedes the inscription of narrative, or moral emotion of empathy"

Jill Bennett, Empathic vision: affect, trauma, and contemporary art, Stanford university press, Palo Alto, 2005, p.36.