{"product_id":"walter-benjamin-a-short-history-of-photography","title":"Walter Benjamin A Short History of Photography","description":"\u003ch1 id=\"pInfoHeading\" class=\"a-size-medium a-spacing-top-small a-color-base a-text-bold\"\u003eBook overview\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"pInfoTabsContainer\" class=\"a-tab-container a-spacing-top-small\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"productDescription_feature_div\" data-feature-name=\"productDescription\" data-template-name=\"productDescription\" class=\"a-section feature\" data-cel-widget=\"productDescription_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-a-name=\"tab0\" class=\"a-box a-box-tab a-tab-content productInfoTabContent t-prnt t-full\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-box-inner\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"productInfoTabExpander0\" data-a-expander-name=\"tabExpander0\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"500\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container productInfoTabExpander\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"x4a8cg-bv587z-5e1q9j-77qcf9\" data-cel-widget=\"drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBenjamin’s early attempt to understand a nascent technology, remarkably prescient and topical even today\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Short History of Photography\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, originally published in the periodical \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLiterarische Welt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in 1931. Beginning with the early experiments of Louis Daguerre and Nicéphore Niépce 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Short History of Photography\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Meteor (HK) Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45475941089478,"sku":null,"price":128.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0649\/7996\/0006\/files\/IMG-4273.jpg?v=1769237109","url":"https:\/\/meteor.com.hk\/products\/walter-benjamin-a-short-history-of-photography","provider":"Meteor (HK) Ltd.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}