Vol. 1 No. 1 (2015)
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La <em>Kriegsfibel</em> di Bertolt Brecht, una teoria negativa

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  • Giacomo Daniele Fragapane
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14601/RSF-16531

Published 2015-09-03

Keywords

  • Bertolt Brecht,
  • Kriegsfibel,
  • war,
  • capitalism,
  • militant photography

How to Cite

Fragapane, G. D. (2015). La <em>Kriegsfibel</em> di Bertolt Brecht, una teoria negativa. Rivista Di Studi Di Fotografia. Journal of Studies in Photography, 1(1), 48–61. https://doi.org/10.14601/RSF-16531
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Abstract

Published in 1955, after many problems due to its radical, ideological position, today Bertolt Brecht’s Kriegsfibel may be described as a ‘negative theory’ of photography. In its utopian and antimodernist structure we can detect several crucial themes of the modern reflection on what is “photographic” and a radical critique of the notion of the “author”. Brecht’s method goes against contemporary photographic historiography that institutionalizes a “classic”, dominant mode of production, and the idea of the medium’s specificity.
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