6+ Siegfried Kracauer Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Siegfried Kracauer quotes and sayings.

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

...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

The photograph annihilates the person. — Siegfried Kracauer

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

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

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