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source: {'title': 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', 'creator': 'Walter Benjamin', 'year': 1936, 'publisher': 'Schocken', 'url': 'https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm', 'text': 'It has quite justly been said of Atget that he photographed [deserted Paris streets] like scenes of crime. The scene of a crime, too, is deserted; it is photographed for the purpose of establishing evidence. With Atget, photographs become standard evidence for historical occurrences, and acquire a hidden political significance.', 'wordcount': 50, 'html': 'It has quite justly been said of Atget that he photographed [deserted Paris streets] like scenes of crime. The scene of a crime, too, is deserted; it is photographed for the purpose of establishing evidence. With Atget, photographs become standard evidence for historical occurrences, and acquire a hidden political significance.
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via: {'title': 'On Photography', 'creator': 'Susan Sontag', 'year': 1977}
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title: Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, 1936
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