• Comparing Walter Benjamin and Susan Sontag

     

    Essays2 Art

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Published: 15.05.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
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Extract

Walter Benjamin and Susan Sontag argues the ways and the kinds of the new technologies and new media like photography and cinema. They are not agreed in all discussion points. <Tab/>Like the german writer and essayist, Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) mentioned in his essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" photography and cinema formed a new vision and a new kind of art. On the other side Susan Sontag one of America's important writers who was born in 1933 and living in New York today, explains in her book "On Photography" this new kind of art: photograph…

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