“The photograph annihilates the person.” PersonsPhotograph Book:The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays Source: The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays
“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.” PersonsMomentsRunningOriginalsPhotographVisibleViewersSpatialConfigurationOld Photographs Author:Siegfried Kracauer
