Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History
Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History
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光之言：历史摄影论文
DOI：
10.5860/choice.34-5471
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发表时间：
1996
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0.8
通讯作者：
E. Cadava
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作者：
E. Cadava
本文论证了本雅明是通过摄影的语言来表达他的历史观的。聚焦于本雅明对历史的闪光和影像的讨论，它认为，摄影与历史之间的这种联系所提出的问题触及了本雅明写作的整个轨迹：技术的历史和政治后果，复制和模仿之间的关系，图像和历史，记忆和遗忘，寓言和哀悼，以及视觉和语言表征。这本书建立了本雅明组织文本的主题和主题的摄影星座，从而成为一个透镜，通过它我们可以开始观察他对新技术媒体与革命性的历史行动和理解概念之间的融合的分析。
This text demonstrates that Walter Benjamin articulates his conception of history through the language of photography. Focusing on Benjamin's discussions of the flashes and images of history, it argues that the questions raised by this link between photography and history touch on issues that belong to the entire trajectory of Benjamin's writings: the historical and political consequences of technology, the relation between reproduction and mimesis, images and history, remembering and forgetting, allegory and mourning, and visual and linguistic representation. The book establishes the photographic constellation of motifs and themes around which Benjamin organizes his texts, thereby becoming a lens through which we one can begin to view his analysis of the convergence between the new technological media and a revolutionary concept of historical action and understanding.