Words of Light. Theses on the Photography of History.

[Citing the blurb: the author demonstrates that Walter Benjamin
articulates his conception of history through the language of photography.
Focusing on Benjamin's discussions of the flashes and images of history,
he argues that the questions raised by this link between photography and
history touch on issues that belong to the entire trajectory of his
writing: the historical and political consequences of technology, and the
relations between reproduction and mimesis, images and history,
remembering and forgetting, allegory and mourning, and visual and
linguistic representation...]