Georges Didi-Huberman Quotes

• The image is not a closed field of knowledge; it is a whirling, centrifugal field. It is not a field of knowledge like any other; it is a movement demanding all the anthropological aspects of being and time.

  Georges Didi-Huberman

  Movement, Fields, Aspect

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• Images embrace us: they open up to us and close themselves to us in so far as they conjure up in us something that we could call an interior experience.

  Georges Didi-Huberman

  Embrace, Interiors

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• Does inadequacy not characterize all that we make use of to perceive and describe the world? Are the signs of language not just as inadequate, albeit differently, as are images?

  Georges Didi-Huberman

  Doe, Use, World

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• Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.

  Georges Didi-Huberman

  Photography, Memories, Epidemics

  Georges Didi-Huberman (2008). “Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz”, p.23, University of Chicago Press

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