W. G. Sebald Quotes

In my photographic work I was always especially entranced... by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out of nothing on the exposed paper, as memories do in the middle of the night, darkening again if you try to cling to them.

W. G. Sebald

• Work
• Night
• Reality
• Memories
• Especially
• Photographic
• Entranced

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• In my photographic work I was always especially entranced... by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out of nothing on the exposed paper, as memories do in the middle of the night, darkening again if you try to cling to them.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Work
  • Night
  • Reality