ABSTRACT
This chapter presents two short texts on photography by Max Horkheimer, who was, along with the likes of Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and Erich Fromm, one of the founding figures of Frankfurt School philosophy, and social and critical theory. The Photo-Exhibition The Family of Mane exhibition has been seen by millions of people in many countries across the globe. As hardly any other aesthetic event of recent times, it has brought large numbers of people happiness and stimulation; it has created memories that will endure. The origins of the kind of photography presented are related to the literature which in its search of lost time aimed to discover aspects of things that are not perceived in the course of a life governed by obligations and routine. Nineteenth-century France took over from eighteenth-century France the nominalistic doctrine that all knowledge is a knowledge of facts, that the only reality available is given in facts.
