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This exhibition invites visitors to delve into Walter Benjamin's theories on photography, focusing on the dichotomy between cult value and exhibition value. Drawing parallels with psychoanalysis, the event explores how photography serves as a medium for unconscious expressions and societal reflections. It examines how early photographs, with their unique emotional resonance and melancholy aura, shift from serving a ritualistic function to an exhibitionist one. By understanding these transformations, attendees will gain insight into the profound social constructions surrounding photography today.
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Go to Walter Benjamin As a social construction Photography Cult Value Exhibition Value
Go to Walter Benjamin Photography As a social construction Cult Value Exhibition Value
Walter Benjamin Welcome to the world of photography according to The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. In photography, exhibition value begins to displace cult value all along the line. The cult of remembrance of loved ones, absent or dead, offers a last refuge for the cult value of the picture. For the last time the aura emanates from the early photographs in the fleeting expression of a human face. This is what constitutes their melancholy, incomparable beauty. But as man withdraws from the photographic image, the exhibition value for the first time shows its superiority to the ritual value.
