An extraordinary document in the history of photographic
criticism.Perhaps more than any other text, A Little History of
Photography by the German-Jewish thinker Walter Benjamin has shaped
the way in which we understand early photography and the
photographic act. One of the first theoretical studies of visual
culture, this essay laid the foundation for modern cultural
criticism. Instead of regarding the artwork as a unique object,
Benjamin emphasized the political and artistic potential of a new
technology based on endless reproduction. A Little History of
Photography was originally published in the German literary journal
Die Literarische Welt in 1931 as three short essays reviewing
several books dedicated to early photography. In this text,
Benjamin introduced concepts that remain central to critical theory
of the medium: the aura, optical unconscious, reproducibility,
among other topics. It constitutes a remarkably prescient
description of the limits and potentials of photography which
remains thought-provoking today.
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