#WalterBenjamin

“The man who explained what photography does to art, what the city does to the mind, and what the victors do to history died at a closed border in 1940 — and became one of the most influential thinkers of the century he didn't live to see.”

“Modernity changes how human beings perceive — the copy, the crowd, and the camera remade experience itself — and history must be read from the wreckage, through the eyes of the defeated, not as a story of progress told by the winners.”