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Quote by Walter Benjamin
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanaly

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. – Walter Benjamin

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Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information — hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations. – Walter Benjamin

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Translation
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Walter Benjamin
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The book borrower…proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures…as by his failure to read these books. – Walter Benjamin

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Books
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Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me. – Sam Abbel

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Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. – Berenice Abbott

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Photography helps people to see. – Berenice Abbott

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The camera can photograph thought. – Dirk Bogarde

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