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Words of light : theses on the photography of history / Eduardo Cadava.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cadava, Eduardo.
- Series:
- Princeton paperbacks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
- Benjamin, Walter.
- Photography--Philosophy.
- Photography.
- Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxx, 173 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1997]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Author Eduardo Cadava demonstrates how Walter Benjamin articulates history through the language of photography. Written in what Cadava calls "snapshopts in prose"--the book enacts a mode of conceiving history that is neither linear nor successive, but rather discontinuous--constructed from what Benjamin calls "dialectical images". 30 photos.
- Contents:
- History
- Heliotropism
- Origins
- Mortification
- Ghosts
- Mimesis
- Translations
- Inscriptions
- Lightning
- Stars
- Eternal return
- Reproducibility
- Politics
- Danger
- Caesura
- Traces
- Nightdreams
- Twilight
- Awakening
- Language
- Matter
- Reflections
- Psyches
- Shocks
- Similarity
- Petrification
- Death
- Epitaphs.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-167) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780691188713
- 0691188718
- Publisher Number:
- 99983972675
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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