Benjamin Stares Back

by Henry Bond

A critical commentary on Walter Benjamin’s classic 1931 essay “A Short History of Photography.”

The text includes:

- The complete original Benjamin essay in English translation
- Thoughts on how to study the text and background to the work
- Passage by passage summaries of the text with critical commentaries
- Commentary on themes, structure, and ideas presented
- Cultural connections
- Analysis of each key point in jargon-free plain language

80 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 15, 2015

About the author

Henry Bond is a writer and photographer; he is senior lecturer in photography at Kingston University; his exploration of Lacanian theory "Lacan at the Scene" was published, with a foreword by Slavoj Žižek, by the MIT Press in 2009.