Publisher name:
Editorial PalinodiaYear of publication:
2006Pages:
290 Book size:
14x22cm
Binding:
Soft coverTrazos de luz is a series of prose snapshots that illuminate the writing of Walter Benjamin and the constellation of authors that his name evokes: Blanqui, Proust, Kafka, Baudelaire. With these theses, Eduardo Cadava reveals the centrality of photographic language in Benjamin's reflection on history and politics, allegory and mourning. Reflection on the technologies of memory and oblivion, Trazos de luz. Thesis on the photography of history is also an effort to understand the language and images that make up the history of Modernity.