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It is often assumed that the photograph commemorates the appearance of the landscape as it was present during the moment of exposure. This view is mistaken. If, as Merleau-Ponty says, “the weight of the natural world is already a weight of the past,” then so too is the visible thick with the sediment of events that never took place, to the extent that we ourselves have absolutely no memory of them ever happening.