“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.” MeanLittlesIdeasHandsUnderstandingMemoriesPowerfulKnownPeriodsStrikesInventionMagazinesMost PowerfulFloodRulingDams Book:The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays Source: The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays
“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.” IfsIdeasFilmPathWindApproachVoidHighwaysThickets Author:Siegfried Kracauer
