Military Family Tree
A "family tree" containing images and names of members of my family who served in the military.
"The enlisted military portrait is rarely exhibited publicly except during times of war. Privately, it finds prized positions in wallets and on mantels of the working class, reminding its curators of the sacrifice and duty upon which their child has embarked. While it has no specific use in the military, it is a cultural object, with meanings reaching far across the divide between military and civilian life. Especially obvious through the reconfiguring of genealogical data into this vernacular form is the history of the medium of photography itself, referencing a time even before its invention."
—Owen Mundy, Traces of Class in the Photographic Representation of Soldiers, 2008
