Lucretius at the camera: ancient atomism and early photographic theory in Walter Benjamin's Berliner Chronik.(Critical essay) From: The Germanic Review | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Downing, Eric | COPYRIGHT 2006 Heldref Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

What follows is part of a larger project that explores the intersections of photography, archaeology, and Bildung in the literature of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Germany. (1) What I present here is a part of that project that concentrates on the role of both photography and archaeology in the work of Walter Benjamin, and particularly on their role in his autobiographical Bildungsgeschichte, Berliner Chronik. Throughout his work, Benjamin is interested in photograp...

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