An essay by this man was the basis for the first section of John Berger's Ways of Seeing.
An essay by this man was the basis for the first section of John Berger's Ways of Seeing. The image of a "little hunchback" was used to structure a biographical sketch of this man by Hannah Arendt, which was later used as the introduction for his most famous collection. This author introduced the image of a "constellation" of seemingly unrelated ideas in his book The Origin of German Tragic Drama. His most famous essay begins with a quotation of the line "For the last twenty years neither matter nor space nor time has been what it was," by Paul ValÃ©ry. In works like "On Some Motifs in (*) Baudelaire," he used the persona of the flÃ¢neur to analyze the city. This author of "The Task of the Translator" criticized photography in an essayabout the diminishing "aura" of art objects. For 10 points, name this Frankfurt School author of Illuminations, which includes "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction."
An essay by this man was the basis for the first section of John Berger's Ways of Seeing.
Walter (Bendix SchÃ¶nflies) Benjamin ("BENÂ­yahÂ­meen")