The No1 Ethical retailer for Books, CD’s, DVD’s & Games
30 Day Refund Guarantee

On Photography

On Photography

by Esther Leslie (Translator), Mr Walter Benjamin (Author)

  • New

    Paperback 2015

    $23.37
Synopsis

Walter Benjamin's essay 'A Short History of Photography' (1931) made bold statements about photographic pioneers such as David Octavius Hill and Nicephore Niepce, and the social and historical context of their work. This first selection of Benjamin's writings on photography includes a new translation of this influential essay as well as a range of Benjamin's other writings, both published and unpublished, some of which are translated into English for the first time here.


$23.37

Quantity

12 in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 128
 Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 01 Sep 2015
ISBN 10: 1780235259
ISBN 13: 9781780235257

Author Bio
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was a German philosopher and cultural critic and one of the most important theorists of the twentieth century. Esther Leslie is professor of political aesthetics at Birkbeck, University of London. She is the author of Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant Garde; Synthetic Worlds: Nature, Art and the Chemical Industry ; and Walter Benjamin, the latter two also published by Reaktion Books.