Photographing a moment can weaken your memory of it, because the reason you took the picture was not to have to remember.

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• The problem is not remembering through photographs but remembering only the photographs, which eclipses other understanding SSSusan Sontag2 Dec 2002
• There is no such thing as photographic memory: people with exceptional visual memory still make ordinary memory errors. ACAlan Castel13 Jul 2026
• The point of a good memory is not to remember more but to remember better, because forgetting most of what you experience is what human brains are built to do. CRCharan Ranganath25 May 2024
• You should never choose your own photos, because nobody knows what they actually look like. PLPieter Levels20 Aug 2024
• Picking someone out of a lineup overwrites the memory of the face actually seen, so identification makes a witness more confident and less accurate at the same time. ACAlan Castel13 Jul 2026

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