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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816393603321

Autore

Kracauer Siegfried <1889-1966, >

Titolo

The past's threshold : essays on photography / / Siegfried Kracauer ; edited by Philippe Despoix and Maria Zinfert ; translations by Conor Joyce

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Zürich : , : Diaphanes, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

3-03734-593-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (129 p.)

Disciplina

770.922

Soggetti

Photography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Kracauer as Thinker of the Photographic Medium; Photography (1927); On Yesterday's Border (1932); Photographed Berlin (1932); A Note on Portrait Photography (1933); The Photographic Approach (1951); Curriculum Vitae in Pictures; Notes; Sources of the Texts; List of Illustrations and Photographic Credits; Acknowledgements

Sommario/riassunto

Siegfried Kracauer was a leading intellectual figure of the Weimar Republic and one of the foremost representatives of critical theory. Best known for a wealth of writings on sociology and film theory, his influence is felt in the work of many of the period's preeminent thinkers, including his friends, the critic Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno, who once claimed he owed more to Kracauer than any other contemporary.This volume brings together for the first time all of Kracauer's essays on photography that he wrote between 1927 and 1933 as a journalist for the Frankfurter Zeitung, as well