On Photography Edited and Esther Leslie

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On Photography by Edited and Esther Leslie

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a new translation of this influential essay as well as a range of Benjamin's other writings, both published and unpublished, some of which are translated into English for the first time here.

About Edited and Esther Leslie

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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GOR007588948

ISBN 13

9781780235257

ISBN 10

1780235259

Title

On Photography by Edited and Esther Leslie

Author

Edited and Esther Leslie

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Reaktion Books

Year published

20150901

Number of pages

128

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