This article discusses the means through which the historian and philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman analyses the visual criticism of the images of history in his book Images in spite of all. Considered by the author as “the eye of history,” image has a tenacious vocation to render visible historical opacities; however, some visual documents in history are only partially recoverable. This study presents some arguments found in Didi-Huberman that a politics of imagination to the historian, functioning as a methodological substitute for any investment in the full and absolute legibility of an “authentic image of the past.” By doing that, it seeks to observe some philosophical-anthropological facets of a historiographic proposal for approaching ...