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Author:?Benjamin

Translator:?Wang Caiyong

Subtitle:?A brief history of photography

ISBN:? 9787214038869?

Number of pages:?157

Price:?18.00

Publisher:?Jiangsu People's Publishing House

Binding:? Paperback

Publication year:?2006-7

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Introduction?·?·?·?·?·? Walter Benjamin, one of the most original thinkers of the 20th century and an important member of the Frankfurt School, was one of the very few Western intellectuals in the 20th century who paid full attention to photography. His "A Brief History of Photography" (1931) and "Works of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1936) can be regarded as classic works on photography and cultural theory, and are also must-read works in the emerging field of cultural studies today. ? Unlike his colleagues of the Frankfurt School, Adorno and Horkheim, who took a resolute critical stance towards mass culture and the cultural industry, Benjamin’s thought is full of paradoxes regarding the intervention of technology in the field of art and the resulting consequences. . His defensive views and views on art reproduction and the cultural industry also allowed him to stand out in Frankfurt. In "A Short History of Photography" and "Works of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", Benjamin focused on analyzing the significant impact of the emergence of photography on modern civilization, especially its revolutionary subversion of artistic activities. He believes that mechanical reproduction methods represented by photography (including movies) have fundamentally changed the way humans perceive art, and predicts that mechanical reproduction methods will eventually eliminate the lofty status of classical art...?(Expand all) Walter Benjamin, one of the most original thinkers of the 20th century and an important member of the Frankfurt School, was one of the very few Western intellectuals in the 20th century who paid full attention to photography. His "A Brief History of Photography" (1931) and "Works of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1936) can be regarded as classic works on photography and cultural theory, and are also must-read works in the emerging field of cultural studies today. ? Unlike his colleagues of the Frankfurt School, Adorno and Horkheim, who took a resolute critical stance towards mass culture and the cultural industry, Benjamin’s thought is full of paradoxes regarding the intervention of technology in the field of art and the resulting consequences. . His defensive views and views on art reproduction and the cultural industry also allowed him to stand out in Frankfurt. In "A Short History of Photography" and "Works of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", Benjamin focused on analyzing the significant impact of the emergence of photography on modern civilization, especially its revolutionary subversion of artistic activities. He believes that mechanical reproduction methods represented by photography (including movies) have fundamentally changed the way humans perceive art, and predicts that mechanical reproduction methods will eventually dispel the lofty status of classical art, and the rights of art will shift from "professionals" to "Freed from the hands and become a general right of the general public. Benjamin’s concepts and ideas about “shock experience”, “dissipation of charm”, and “reproduction/creation” in these two works have a profound impact on modern photography theory and cultural theory. ?Jiangsu People's Publishing House has reassembled and published Benjamin's two classic works this time, with nearly a hundred carefully selected illustrations. The translation by the translator Mr. Wang Caiyong is from the original German work. This book is wonderful Undoubtedly classic.

About the author: Benjamin (1892-1940), a Jew. He is a rare genius in the 20th century, a true genius, and "the last intellectual in Europe". Benjamin's life is a drama of ups and downs. His Kafkaesque delicacy, sensitivity, and fragility did not allow him to hide quietly in a fixed night, but drove him to wander throughout Europe to experience shock; Benjamin's Loneliness is loneliness in the context of noise and movement. This kind of loneliness makes people despair and inspires hope. Benjamin's writing always hovers between despair and hope, between the public and theology. Therefore, this kind of writing has gained a certain an ambiguous ethical attitude. Ambiguity is one of Benjamin's characteristics. His identity, his career, his themes, his writings, his beliefs, his space, and his few words are all uncertain and difficult to classify.

There is only one thing that is truly certain, and that is his erudition, talent and keen dialectical understanding. It is this kind of integration that left a huge figure and a space for thinking in the 20th century. In 1940, Benjamin committed suicide in a Spanish border town. This town was also the place where the British writer George Orwell escaped to France three years ago after experiencing the Spanish Civil War.