Abstract

SELIGMANN-SILVA, Márcio. Photography in Walter Benjamin's work: "frozen dialectic" and the "second technic". Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2012, vol.46, n.2, pp. 121-136. ISSN 0486-641X.

The text presents Walter Benjamin's photography theory showing its relation with the photography theory of his period as well as its connection with the Benjaminian concepts of “frozen dialectic” and “dialectical image”. His philosophy of history is interpreted departing from his idea that the past has leaved on the texts, images that each now needs to develop. Concluding, the essay analyses the concept of “second technic”, that Benjamin develops in his work about the artwork in the era of it's technical reproduction, where technic is seen close to the concept of play/game and as a means to emancipation.

Keywords : photography; dialectical image; second technic.

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