"Photography grasps what is given as spatial or temporal continuum, memory images retain what is given only insofar as it has significance. Since what is significant is not reducible to either merely spatial or merely temporal terms, memory images are at odds with photographic representation".

Kracauer, ' Photography', in Thomas Y. Levin, The mass ornament: Weimar essays, Harvard UP, Cambridge, 1995, pp.50-51.