I think that no one human being would have been able to look at [a hypothetical photographic record of the Nazi gassing of Jews]... I would have preferred to destroy it. It is not visible.
Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that. - Claude Lanzmann
Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that.
- Claude Lanzmann
I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation. - Claude Lanzmann
I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation.
I think that no one human being would have been able to look at [a hypothetical photographic record of the Nazi gassing of Jews]... I would have pref… - Claude Lanzmann
I think that no one human being would have been able to look at [a hypothetical photographic record of the Nazi gassing of Jews]... I would have pref…
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