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 organizing a strike against understanding... The 'image-idea' drives away the idea.


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

Siegfried Kracauer Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...