Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History

Princeton University Press (1998)
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Focusing on Walter Benjamin's discussions of the flashes and images of history, this book argues that the questions raised by this link between photography and history touch on issues that belong to the entire trajectory of Benjamin's ...

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0691002681   9780691002682   0691034508
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