{"product_id":"a-little-history-of-photography-walter-benjamin-9783753304014","title":"A Little History of Photography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBenjamin's early attempt to understand a nascent technology, remarkably prescient and topical even today\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The illiterate of the future ... will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.\" So declared Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) in his essay \u003ci\u003eA Little History of Photography\u003c\/i\u003e, originally published in the periodical \u003ci\u003eLiterarische Welt\u003c\/i\u003e in 1931. Beginning with the early experiments of Louis Daguerre and Nic?phore Ni?pce and concluding with the work of August Sander and Germaine Krull, Benjamin moved beyond the medium itself to address the artistic, societal and political capabilities that photography foretold. \u003ci\u003eA Little History of Photography\u003c\/i\u003e contains the inklings of his thoughts on \"reproducibility\" that he would later flesh out in his best-known text, \"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.\" Benjamin's view of photography gave early credence to the medium and its practitioners and shaped the methodology by which it can be analyzed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Walter Benjamin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3753304018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783753304014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Walther Konig Verlag\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/10\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 48\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Walter Benjamin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45898560962815,"sku":"9783753304014","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dfff4d17-f6a8-4d9e-b4cf-268abfbca8ae.jpg?v=1721376595","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-little-history-of-photography-walter-benjamin-9783753304014","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}