Words of light : theses on the photography of history / Eduardo Cadava.

Main entry:

Cadava, Eduardo, author.

Title & Author:

Words of light : theses on the photography of history / Eduardo Cadava.

Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1997]
©1997

Description:

xxx, 173 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Series:

Princeton paperbacks

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-167) and index.
History -- Heliotropism -- Origins -- Mortification -- Ghosts -- Mimesis -- Translations -- Inscriptions -- Lightning -- Stars -- Eternal return -- Reproducibility -- Politics -- Danger -- Caesura -- Traces -- Nightdreams -- Twilight -- Awakening -- Language -- Matter -- Reflections -- Psyches -- Shocks -- Similarity -- Petrification -- Death -- Epitaphs.

Summary:

Focusing on Walter Benjamin's discussions of the flashes and images of history, this book argues that the questions raised by this link between photography and history touch on issues that belong to the entire trajectory of Benjamin's writings.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

0691034508 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780691034508 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0691002681
9780691002682

Subject:

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 Criticism and interpretation.
Photography Philosophy.
Historiography.
Photographie Philosophie.
Historiographie.
historiography.
15.01 historiography.
Fotografie.
Filosofie.
Geschiedschrijving.

Added entries:

Princeton paperbacks.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 192290
Call No.: ID TR183.C33; ID:97-B3384
Status: Available

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