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… — Siegfried Kracauer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The flood of photos sweeps away the dams of memory. Never before has a period known so little about itself. In the hands of… — Siegfried Kracauer Copy Share Image
...the world has become a photographable present, and the photographed present has been entirely eternalized. Seemingly ripped from the clutch of death, in reality… — Siegfried Kracauer Copy Share Image
A shudder runs through the viewer of old photographs. For they make visible not the knowledge of the original but the spatial configuration of… — Siegfried Kracauer Copy Share Image
There is no one who has no leisure time at all. The office is not a permanent sanctuary, and Sundays are an institution. Thus,… — Siegfried Kracauer Copy Share Image
“...[G]enuine fairy tales are not stories about miracles, but rather announcements of the miraculous advent of justice.” — Siegfried Kracauer Copy Share Image
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… — Siegfried Kracauer Copy Share Image
The image wanders ghostlike through the present. Ghostly apparitions occur only in places where a terrible deed has been committed. — Siegfried Kracauer Copy Share Image