The Past's Threshold Essays on Photography |
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| Author:
| Kracauer, Siegfried |
| Editor:
| Despoix, Philippe
Zinfert, Maria |
| ISBN: | 978-3-03734-691-4 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2014 |
| Publisher: | diaphanes
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $20.00 |
Book Description:
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Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1966), friend and colleague of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, was one of the most original thinkers to emerge from the Weimar Republic. Philosopher, novelist, sociologist, historian and film critic, he was also a pioneering theorist of photography. This volume brings together for the first time Kracauer’s essays on photography that he wrote for the Frankfurter Zeitung between 1927 and 1933 as well as an article he wrote...
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Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1966), friend and colleague of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, was one of the most original thinkers to emerge from the Weimar Republic. Philosopher, novelist, sociologist, historian and film critic, he was also a pioneering theorist of photography. This volume brings together for the first time Kracauer’s essays on photography that he wrote for the Frankfurter Zeitung between 1927 and 1933 as well as an article he wrote for Magazine of Art in the USA, where the "eminent émigré intellectual" spent the last twenty-five years of his life.
With a foreword by Philippe Despoix offering insights into Kracauer’s theories and the historical context, and a Curriculum vitae in pictures, photographs from the Kracauer estate annotated by Maria Zinfert.