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
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
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