Walter Benjamin, age 46
Photographer: Gisele Freund [1938]
Photographer: Gisele Freund [1938]
• • • WALTER BENJAMIN • • •
• • Born in Berlin, Walter Benjamin [15 July 1892 — 27 September 1940] was a German-Jewish Marxist philosopher-sociologist, translator, literary critic, and essayist.
• • He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. His Marxism was more influenced by Bertolt Brecht, who had developed his own critical aesthetics, which asked for the emotional distancing of the spectator (Verfremdungseffekt).
• • An important earlier influence and friend was Gershom Scholem, who founded the modern, academic study of the Kabbalah and of Jewish mysticism. Over the last half-century the regard for his work and its influence have risen dramatically, making Walter Benjamin one of the more important twentieth century thinkers about literature and about modern aesthetic experience.
• • As a sociological and cultural critic, Walter Benjamin combined ideas drawn from historical materialism, German idealism, and Jewish mysticism in a body of work which was a novel contribution to Western Marxism and aesthetic theory.
• • As a literary scholar, he wrote his most famous essays on Charles Baudelaire; he translated the Tableaux Parisiens edition of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal as well as Proust's In Search of Lost Time.
• • Born in Berlin, Walter Benjamin [15 July 1892 — 27 September 1940] was a German-Jewish Marxist philosopher-sociologist, translator, literary critic, and essayist.
• • He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. His Marxism was more influenced by Bertolt Brecht, who had developed his own critical aesthetics, which asked for the emotional distancing of the spectator (Verfremdungseffekt).
• • An important earlier influence and friend was Gershom Scholem, who founded the modern, academic study of the Kabbalah and of Jewish mysticism. Over the last half-century the regard for his work and its influence have risen dramatically, making Walter Benjamin one of the more important twentieth century thinkers about literature and about modern aesthetic experience.
• • As a sociological and cultural critic, Walter Benjamin combined ideas drawn from historical materialism, German idealism, and Jewish mysticism in a body of work which was a novel contribution to Western Marxism and aesthetic theory.
• • As a literary scholar, he wrote his most famous essays on Charles Baudelaire; he translated the Tableaux Parisiens edition of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal as well as Proust's In Search of Lost Time.
• • • GISELE FREUND • • •
• • Born near Berlin, Gisèle Freund [19 November 1908/ 1912 — 31 March 2000] was a German-born French photographer, Freund was famous for her documentary photographs and portraits of writers and artists. Her best-known book is Photographie et société (1974), about the uses and abuses of the photographic medium.
• • In 1938, decades before the use of color was widespread, Gisele Freund photographed the 46-year-old Walter Benjamin — — two years before his suicide.
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• • Born near Berlin, Gisèle Freund [19 November 1908/ 1912 — 31 March 2000] was a German-born French photographer, Freund was famous for her documentary photographs and portraits of writers and artists. Her best-known book is Photographie et société (1974), about the uses and abuses of the photographic medium.
• • In 1938, decades before the use of color was widespread, Gisele Freund photographed the 46-year-old Walter Benjamin — — two years before his suicide.
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• • This extraordinary image was reproduced on premium stock in a book
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• • You will receive this one single page disbound from this hardcover book — — set off to perfection in a striking mat.
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• • ORIGINAL: the original 1938 photo
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• • IMAGE SIZE: 5 7/8 inches X 8 5/8 inches (approximately)
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• • MAT SIZE: 11 inches X 14 inches
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