On Photography

About Mr Walter BenjaminWalter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was a German philosopher and cultural critic and one of the most important theorists of the twentieth century. Esther Leslie is professor of political aesthetics at Birkbeck University of London. She is the author of Hollywood Flatlands: Animation Critical Theory and the Avant Garde; Synthetic Worlds: Nature Art and the Chemical Industry; and Walter Benjamin the latter two also published by Reaktion Books.