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 moment; what appears in the photograph is not the person but the sum of what can be subtracted from him or her.


The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays (ed. Harvard University Press, 1995) - ISBN: 9780674551633

Siegfried Kracauer Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...