β Scribed by Walter Benjamin
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Annotation;Introduction : Walter Benjamin and the birth of photography -- Small history of photography (1931) -- Nothing wrong with the illustrated press! (1925) -- Letter to Grete Cohn (16 October 1927) -- New things about flowers (1928) -- Paris, the city in the mirror : declarations of love by poets and artists to the 'capital of the world' (1929) -- The wall (c. 1932-4) -- Review of Gisèle Freund's La photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle. essai de sociologie et d'esthétique (1938).
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