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A Short History of Photography Author: [Germany] Walter Benjamin Translator: Xu Qiling/Lin Zhiming Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press
A Short History of Photography Author: [Germany] Walter Benjamin Translator: Xu Qiling/Lin Zhiming Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press
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The book includes four essays written by Walter Benjamin in the 1930s: "A Short History of Photography" (1931), "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1936), "Painting and Photography" (1936) and "Chinese Painting Exhibition in the National Library of France" (1938).
Among them, "A Short History of Photography" and "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" are both Benjamin's world-renowned masterpieces. As monuments in the critical practice of photography and film, they not only provide people with a new and inspiring perspective to understand these two media, but also make impressive judgments on photography pioneers such as Nicéphore Niépce, Eugène Atget and even August Sander and their aesthetic and technical achievements, and also discuss in great depth the entangled and ambiguous relationship between photography, film and painting.
About the Author
Walter Benjamin
German philosopher, cultural critic and essayist. Born into a prominent Jewish family. Settled in Berlin in 1920, engaged in literary criticism and translation. In 1933, when the Nazis came to power, he left Germany and settled in Paris, where he continued to write papers and reviews for literary journals. In 1940, France fell and Benjamin fled south. After several unsuccessful attempts to leave the country, he chose to commit suicide in the small town of Port-au-Beau on the French-Spanish border, exhausted physically and mentally. His works were published in large numbers after his death, winning him increasing honors.
Benjamin's thought combines elements from many traditions, including German idealism, romanticism, Western Marxism, and Jewish mysticism, and has a lasting and profound influence in the fields of aesthetic theory, literary criticism, and historical materialism. His most well-known essays include "The Task of the Translator" (1923), "A Short History of Photography" (1931), "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1936), and "Theses on the Philosophy of History" (1940).
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