Walter Benjamin, 1892-1940, was a German Jewish literary theorist. His writing and ideas are often presented as fragments.
In today's lecture we focused on four of his essays, News About Flowers, 1928, A Short History of Photography, 1930, Author as Producer, 1934, and Last Essay, 1936.
News About Flowers - a review of Karl Blossfeldt's book which suggested that photography can reveal to us entirely new things about the most ordinary objects. It changes the human perception about objects. It can also reveal movement by speeding up and slowing down objects via moving image film.
A Short History of Photography - goes beyond simple chronological and the ideas of optical unconscious.
Author as Producer - photographers must become writers, and writers must become photographers.
Last Essay - Aura and the effects of modernity. With new technologies of photography and film.
decay of the aura - bring it closer, keep it, and accepting uniqueness.
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