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