"... In a certain photograph I believe I perceive lineaments of the truth. This is what happens when I judge a certain photograph "a likeness". Yet on thinking it over, I must ask myself: Who is like what? Resemblance is a conformity, but to what? to an identity. Now this identity is imprecise, even imaginary, to the point where I can continue to speak of the "likeness" without ever having seen the model" (Barthes, 101) This event highlights an instance of human nature; our tendency to analyze things to the core, even when there is nothing left to analyze. Naturally, we attempt to rationalize the things that we observe. As with a simple photograph, a moment in time captured visually, there is nothing to be rationalized. A photograph is simply just a picture; an instant in time. Barthes instinctively and incessantly tries to find something to compare the photograph to. This nature of ours helps us find meaning in objects, words, images, sounds, and life in general.