All but beyond time. The poetic of photography with W.G. Sebald

This article approaches its topic, the use of photography in W.G. Sebald's work, in two steps. First of all, it presents a system of the word-picture-combinations which had the greatest importance for Sebald. The guiding question is: What function do the pictures have in a reading of the texts? The second part refers to the reflections on the medium of photography in Sebald's texts. The authors analyse Sebald's poetics of photography, at the centre of which is the thesis of the ghostly, time-negating effect of black and white photography.