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The leftist German cultural critic Walter Benjamin remains best known for his enormously influential essay on photography, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” But his magnum opus, ...

I found German writer Walter Benjamin through my middle-school history teacher. He was my first adult crush, barely 21 and a graduate student with long hair pulled back in a ponytail and wire-rim ...

The Israel Museum in Jerusalem presented a brand new exhibition by Gilad Reich based on the work of German Jewish thinker and philosopher Walter Benjamin, A Short History of Photography (1931).