When This You See, Remember Me 10

My mother's parents, Frank and Mary Jonash. They were born in Croatia and met and were married in Milwaukee.

Surrealism has always courted accidents, welcomed the uninvited, flattered disorderly presences.... Unlike the fine-art objects of pre-democratic eras, photographs don't seem deeply beholden to the intentions of an artist. Rather, they owe their existence to a loose cooperation (quasi-magical, quasi-accidental) between photographer and subject - mediated by an ever simpler and more automated machine, which is tireless, and which even when capricious can produce a result that is interesting and never entirely wrong.

-Susan Sontag, "On Photography"