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 invention of illustrated magazines is one of the most powerful means of organizing a strike against understanding... The 'image-idea' drives away the idea.

  Siegfried Kracauer

  Memories, Powerful, Mean

  Siegfried Kracauer, Thomas Y. Levin (1995). “The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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• ...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

  Reality, World, Clutch

  Siegfried Kracauer, Thomas Y. Levin (1995). “The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays”, p.59, Harvard University Press

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• The image wanders ghostlike through the present. Ghostly apparitions occur only in places where a terrible deed has been committed.

  Siegfried Kracauer

  Deeds, Apparitions, Wander

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• The photograph annihilates the person.

  Siegfried Kracauer

  Photograph, Persons

  Siegfried Kracauer, Thomas Y. Levin (1995). “The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays”, p.57, Harvard University Press

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• 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

  Wind, Ideas, Void

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• 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

  Running, Moments, Photograph

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• No hay nadie que no tenga tiempo libre. La oficina no es un santuario permanente, y los domingos son una institución. Así, en principio, durante esas hermosas horas de tiempo libre todo el mundo tendría la oportunidad de despertarse hasta el verdadero aburrimiento. Pero aunque uno no quiera hacer nada, le hacen las cosas: el mundo se encarga de que uno no se encuentre a sí mismo. Y aunque a uno tal vez no le interese, el mundo en sí está demasiado interesado como para que uno encuentre la paz y la tranquilidad necesarias para aburrirse tan a fondo del mundo como en el fondo se merece.

  Siegfried Kracauer

  Beautiful, Real, Sunday

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