True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as if strengthened by its own medium, to shine even more fully on the original.
Walter BenjaminThe illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.
Walter BenjaminEvery image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.
Walter Benjamin