Occupation: Writer Birth: February 8, 1889 Death: November 26, 1966
The image wanders ghostlike through the present. Ghostly apparitions occur only in places where a terrible deed has been committed..
...the world has become a photographable present, and the photographed present has been entirely eternalized. Seemingly ripped from the clutch of dea….
The photograph annihilates the person..
A shudder runs through the viewer of old photographs. For they make visible not the knowledge of the original but the spatial configuration of a mome….
The flood of photos sweeps away the dams of memory. Never before has a period known so little about itself. In the hands of the ruling society, the i….
Guided by film...we approach, if at all, ideas no longer on highways leading through the void but on paths that wind through the thicket of things..
There is no one who has no leisure time at all. The office is not a permanent sanctuary, and Sundays are an institution. Thus, in principle, during t….