What does it mean to dream about photograph?
A photograph usually holds memory and a moment kept, so notice who or what it showed and whether it brought warmth, longing, or distance.
Four ways to read it
Each reading below comes from a named tradition and a cited source, so you can see where it came from and decide what fits your dream.
Freud
Freud's approach would read the photograph as a fixed image of someone loved or lost, charged with the wish to hold on. A faded or torn photo can carry feeling about a bond changed or grieved.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung might see the photograph as an image of the past the psyche keeps, a part of your story preserved. Who appears in it can point to a figure that still lives within you.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties photographs to waking memory, nostalgia, and relationships present or past. A photo in a dream often echoes a real wish to remember, hold, or come to terms with someone.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
Before the photograph, the painted likeness and the still reflection were thought to hold a part of the soul. The captured image has always seemed to keep something of the person apart from the flesh.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Frazer; Brewer).