Top 6 Siegfried Kracauer Quotes
#2. 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.
Siegfried Kracauer
#3. The image wanders ghostlike through the present. Ghostly apparitions occur only in places where a terrible deed has been committed.
Siegfried Kracauer
#4. 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
#6. The world has become a photographable present, and the photographed present has been entirely eternalized. Seemingly ripped from the clutch of death, in reality it has succumbed to it.
Siegfried Kracauer
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