On Photography by Leslie, Esther

On Photography (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781780235257)

Vendor: Esther Leslie
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Format: Paperback
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On Photography by Leslie, Esther

On Photography

$24.95
On Photography by Leslie, Esther

On Photography

$24.95
Format: Paperback
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Walter Benjamin's 1931 essay "A Short History of Photography" is a landmark in the understanding and criticism of the medium, offering surprising new takes on such photographic pioneers as David Octavius Hill and Nic phore Ni pce and their aesthetic and technical achievements.

On Photography presents a new translation of that essay along with a number of other writings by Benjamin, some of them presented in English for the first time. Translator and editor Esther Leslie sets Benjamin's work in context with prefaces to each piece and contributes a substantial introduction that considers Benjamin's engagement with photography in all its forms, including early commercial studio photography, the uses of photography in science, and much more.


Author: Esther Leslie, Walter Benjamin
ISBN-10: 1780235259
ISBN-13: 9781780235257
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Language: English
Published: 12/15/2015
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.80h x 4.60w x 0.60d
By Esther Leslie
By Esther Leslie
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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.

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