The first few decades of the 19th century brought about the emergence of modern photographic processes that augmented reproduction innovation first made viable by the lithograph. Inevitably- precipitated in its powers of mass assemblage only by newsprint- came the advent of filmmaking. Possibilities of a new cohesive culture placed an incredible emphasis on “exhibition value”Continue reading ““21st Century Distractions for Capital’s Golden Child: ” America’s prefigured contrivance of coalesced art and news media in the work of Walter Benjamin”