Main entry:

Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966, author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Zurich ; Berlin : Diaphanes, 2014.

Description:

127 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 21 cm

Notes:
"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 as an essay that appeared in the Magazine of Art after his exile in America"--Page 4 of cover
Includes bibliographical references.
Kracauer as thinker of the photographic medium / Philippe Despoix -- Photography (1927) -- On yesterday's border (1932) -- Photographed Berlin (1932) -- A note on portrait photography (1933) -- The photographic approach (1951) -- Curriculum vitae in pictures / Maria Zinfert.

Summary:

"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 as an essay that appeared in the Magazine of Art after his exile in America"--Page 4 of cover

ISBN:

9783037346914 (paperback)
3037346914 (paperback)

Subject:

Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966.
Photography Philosophy.
Photography History 20th century.
Photographie Philosophie.
Photographie Histoire 20e siècle.
Photography.
Fotokonst teori, filosofi.
Fotokonst historia.

Form/genre:

Essays.
History.

Added entries:

Despoix, Philippe, editor, writer of added commentary.
Zinfert, Maria, 1962- editor.
Joyce, Conor, translator.

Essays on photography

Holdings:

Location: Library main 288444
Call No.: BIB 230124
Status: Available