Walter Benjamin's “Short History of Photography ” – Artforum
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Church of the Priory of St Martin, Paris, France, Atget, Jean-Eugène-Auguste
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Walter Benjamin's “Short History of Photography ” – Artforum
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Doorway, Musee de Cluny, Paris, France, Atget, Jean-Eugène-Auguste
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Oldenburg's Mouse – Artforum
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Walter Benjamin - Monoskop
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Walter Benjamin's “Short History of Photography ” – Artforum
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“SINCE THE LATE 18TH CENTURY THE FUNCTION OF ART AS A FORM OF VALUE, AND HOW THAT VALUE WAS TO BE DEFINED, HAS BEEN ANYTHING BUT CLEAR.” – Artforum
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Bill Brandt – Artforum
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Fountain in the Gerechtigkeitsgasse, Bern, Switzerland, Atget, Jean-Eugène-Auguste
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PDF) Photography, Multiplicity, Promiscuity: Michel Foucault and Walter Benjamin
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Hans Namuth – Artforum
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Rosamond Wolff Purcell – Artforum