The Photographer as Producer: Technique and Dialectics in Berenice Abbott and Elizabeth McCausland’s Changing New York

  • Luis Periáñez Llorente Complutense University of Madrid
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/esim.85804
Keywords: Benjamin, Abbott, McCausland, Changing New York
Agencies: La presente investigación ha contado con la financiación de un contrato predoctoral FPU concedido por el Ministerio de Educación y Formación Profesional, en el marco del proyecto de investigación “La contemporaneidad clásica y su dislocación: de Weber a Foucault” (PID2020-113413RB-C31) y del proyecto de innovación docente “Red de docentes y repositorio digital de recursos educativos: Una historia del capitalismo contemporáneo I. La crisis del Estado liberal y de la primera globalización a través de fuentes fílmicas, literarias y estéticas”.

Abstract

This paper recomposes the theoretical framework deployed by Walter Benjamin in The Author as Producer and in The Work of Art in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility to interpret from there the aesthetic specificity and political potential of the original project by Berenice Abbott and Elizabeth McCausland, Changing New York. In the same way, said framework will serve to analyze the consequences of the censorship suffered by the project in its editing process.

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Published
2023-12-21
How to Cite
Periáñez Llorente, L. (2023). The Photographer as Producer: Technique and Dialectics in Berenice Abbott and Elizabeth McCausland’s Changing New York. Escritura E Imagen, 19, 57-78. https://doi.org/10.5209/esim.85804
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Vol. 19 (2023)
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