A composition by Daguerre, full of what Kracauer might call "mute objects":
And a photography by Atget, perhaps supporting Benjamin's final claim, "But isn't every square inch of our cities a crime scene?"
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Early Photographs
.... of the kind that Benjamin discusses in his Little History of Photography.
A composition by Daguerre, full of what Kracauer might call "mute objects":
And a photography by Atget, perhaps supporting Benjamin's final claim, "But isn't every square inch of our cities a crime scene?"
A composition by Daguerre, full of what Kracauer might call "mute objects":
And a photography by Atget, perhaps supporting Benjamin's final claim, "But isn't every square inch of our cities a crime scene?"
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