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 invention of illustrated magazines is one of the most powerful means of organizing a strike against understanding... The 'image-idea' drives away the idea.
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… - Siegfried Kracauer
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…
- Siegfried Kracauer
...the world has become a photographable present, and the photographed present has been entirely eternalized. Seemingly ripped from the clutch of dea… - Siegfried Kracauer
...the world has become a photographable present, and the photographed present has been entirely eternalized. Seemingly ripped from the clutch of dea…
The image wanders ghostlike through the present. Ghostly apparitions occur only in places where a terrible deed has been committed. - Siegfried Kracauer
The image wanders ghostlike through the present. Ghostly apparitions occur only in places where a terrible deed has been committed.
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… - Siegfried Kracauer
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…
The photograph annihilates the person. - Siegfried Kracauer
The photograph annihilates the person.
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. - Siegfried Kracauer
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.
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… - Siegfried Kracauer
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…
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