This is what the film diva looks like. She is twenty-four years old, featured on the cover of an illustrated magazine,
standing in front of the Hotel Excelsior on the Lido.
The date is September. If one were to look through a magnifying glass one could make out the grain,
the millions of little dots that constitute the diva, the waves and the hotel.
The picture, however, does not refer to the dot matrix but to the living diva on the Lido.
Siegfried Kracauer, "Die Photographie"