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Fran Assa on 1930s Berlin photographs: I for one won't open these photos. I do not even write the H word. I use Der Fuhrer instead. It may be some form of animism, but to replicate the images, even the name, to me is a form of having these monsters live on. Somehow I think VN would agree.
JM: I deleted the images as soon as they reappeared at the VN List. I chided myself because they are historical items but, although I wouldn't have minded to keep them printed inside a book, I refused to have them in my archives in a computer - it's another instance of animism, perhaps. I found the relation bt these images and what VN saw while he lived in Berlin or what he would think about them a very strange preoccupation. Curiously, it was Walter Benjamin's suicide that came to my mind, the destruction of any stable reference in art, culture, "humanity," something that I feel to be worse than physical obliteration.
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JM: I deleted the images as soon as they reappeared at the VN List. I chided myself because they are historical items but, although I wouldn't have minded to keep them printed inside a book, I refused to have them in my archives in a computer - it's another instance of animism, perhaps. I found the relation bt these images and what VN saw while he lived in Berlin or what he would think about them a very strange preoccupation. Curiously, it was Walter Benjamin's suicide that came to my mind, the destruction of any stable reference in art, culture, "humanity," something that I feel to be worse than physical obliteration.
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