Returning to Benjamin - Victor Burgin (Discourse series) sculpture in the course of the

in the course of the book

photographers MERT & MARCUS

these questions are at the center of his work

Rotunda is a book series produces by Trema Förlag

as seen by the photographers

Returning to Benjamin - Victor Burgin (Discourse series) sculpture in the course of theIn the mid 1930s, Walter Benjamin posed the question of the relation of art to the dominant representational technology of his time: photography and film. To return to the artwork essay today in the spirit in which it was written is to ask the same question in respect of the hegemonic representational technology of our own time: the digital. Benjamin found that the medium of photography and film had dissolved the auratic quality of art. Digital