@article{14f0567405df4a1aaf0949dfa88228dd,
title = "Walter Benjamin on Photography and Fantasy",
abstract = "The essay provides a commentary on Walter Benjamin{\textquoteright}s “News from Flowers”, a review of the album of plant photography of Karl Blossfeldt. I place Benjamin{\textquoteright}s account of Blossfeldt{\textquoteright}s achievement both in relation to Goethe{\textquoteright}s studies of the vegetal realm as well as to the fantasy world of Grandville{\textquoteright}s Animated Flowers. This juxtaposition allows me to interpret Benjamin{\textquoteright}s understanding of the possibilities opened by photography and the transformation it brings to the relation of art to science and the imagination.",
keywords = "Goethe, Karl Blossfeldt, Walter Benjamin, fantasy, photography, primal phenomena, types",
author = "Eli Friedlander",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017, {\textcopyright} Critical Horizons Pty Ltd 2017.",
year = "2017",
month = oct,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1080/14409917.2017.1374912",
language = "אנגלית",
volume = "18",
pages = "295--306",
journal = "Critical Horizons",
issn = "1440-9917",
publisher = "Maney Publishing",
number = "4",
}