History therefore begins where memory is endangered, during the flash that marks its emergence and disappearance. It begins where the domain of the historical cannot be defined by the concept of historicality—where representation ends. As Nancy puts it: ‘The historian’s work—which is never a work of memory—is a work of representation in many senses, but it is representation with respect to something that is not representable, and that is history itself. History is unrepresentable, not in the sense that it would be some presence hidden behind the representations, but because it is the coming into presence, as event’ (Finite History, 166). — Eduardo Cadava, Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History (Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1997), 63.