
Walter Benjamin's 1931 essay "A Short History of Photography" is a landmark in the understanding and criticism of the medium, offering surprising new takes on such photographic pioneers as David Octavius Hill and Nic phore Ni pce and their aesthetic and technical achievements.
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Benjamin's early attempt to understand a nascent technology, remarkably prescient and topical even today "The illiterate of the future ... will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph." So declared Walter Benjamin...
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