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The Mnemosyne Atlas stressed the intrusion of photography into the discourse of the history of art and the assumption of a place traditionally reserved for the text. The Atlas does not restrict itself to describing the migration of images in the history of representation, but reproduces them. In other words, Mnemosyne is based on a cinematic way of thinking – it uses figures not to express meanings but to yield effects. It is precisely in the cinema that we may encounter the strongest links with the Warburg undertaking.