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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Mediadi Walter Benjamin
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. One of the best critics on pbotography ever ( ) Interesting to connect the lived experience to photography, and how photography can record accumulated degradation of a touristic location. I was (and still am to some extent) an avid photographer (pre-instagram) however, a few years ago I started to realise a couple of things. It occurred to me that collecting images of photogenic locals was a disgraceful invasion of their privacy (duh!), and secondly that I was spending so much time literally focussed on the image 'within' the camera's field of view that I was missing the actual experience of the ' space and place'. I still use my phone camera but more as a record of a moment in time than trying to capture that 'perfect' image. There is a certain nostalgia that kicks in, however, when I remind myself I don't have to take the film in 'to get developed and printed' before I can see the image...a bit like saving up your paper-round money for weeks (or months) to buy that one record you have to have… The dilemma of travel, people want to see nice places but sadly that often destroys the nice place. What hasn’t helped is instagram vanity and cheap (climate trashing) travel. My holidays of the last 3 years involve sketchbook, pencils & paint. It’s a cliche but drawing makes me see, not simply look. It also slows me right down after months of rushing around at work. I didn’t start out drawing well, it’s been a slog having low talent. Looking back at the sketchbooks and postcards really bring the places back to life. It’s a visceral experience. The mobile phone seems to stop people even looking directly at the scene, just squinting at a tiny screen before “click” and leaving. So sad, rushing about collecting poorly taken photos just like the people before & after them. I’m convinced they’d enjoy more by just sitting quietly to soak in the view then buying a very well photographed postcard in the next village. Why do we want to rush about? Probably teaching someone else how to suck eggs, but this calls to mind Walter Benjamin's thoughts on photography in his 1936 essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”. Prescient writing, I reckon... #Urban Sketching #uskp #uskportugal #Watercolour Book Review Everyday Urban Sketching Urban Sketching UrbanSketching Watercolour nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Benjamin's famous "Work of Art" essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in general--in their most realized form, while retaining an edge that gets under the skin of everyone who reads it. In this essay the visual arts of the machine age morph into literature and theory and then back again to images, gestures, and thought. This essay, however, is only the beginning of a vast collection of writings that the editors have assembled to demonstrate what was revolutionary about Benjamin's explorations on media. Long before Marshall McLuhan, Benjamin saw that the way a bullet rips into its victim is exactly the way a movie or pop song lodges in the soul. This book contains the second, and most daring, of the four versions of the "Work of Art" essay--the one that addresses the utopian developments of the modern media. The collection tracks Benjamin's observations on the media as they are revealed in essays on the production and reception of art; on film, radio, and photography; and on the modern transformations of literature and painting. The volume contains some of Benjamin's best-known work alongside fascinating, little-known essays--some appearing for the first time in English. In the context of his passionate engagement with questions of aesthetics, the scope of Benjamin's media theory can be fully appreciated. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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