Assignment: Compare Benjamin and Jünger's views on photography. Why does Jünger refer to the camera as the "evil eye". How does Benjamin's views compare?
Both Benjamin and Junger's views on photography are very similar. Both men view photography as something that captures the moment and is something that last's forever. They both show that with a photograph one is able to see more than they would with just the mere sight of something. It provides a memory and perhaps it allows us to see something that we may have missed the first time.
When Junger refers to the camera as the "evil eye" he is stating that the camera only captures the bad, evil things. At the time that Junger wrote this was around war time, where majority of the photographs taken were of the destruction of families, homes and they showed the public what was really going on during war time. It showed people what was really happening perhaps to expose the government and what not, but it was not for the good.
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