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      First published in paperback by Verso 2015

      First published in English by Verso 2007

      Translation © Esther Leslie 2007, 2015

      First published as Walter Benjamins Archive: Bilder, Texte und Zeichen by Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main, 2006 © Suhrkamp Verlag 2006; “Expose of Paris, The Capital of the Nineteenth Century,” “Draft of the Arcades of Paris,” “Fragments of the General Layout, Layout for the Expose of Paris, The Capital of the Nineteenth Century,” and “Notes and Materials for the Arcades Project,” all reprinted by permission of the publisher from The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin, trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin, pp. 3, 349–50, 873–76, 915–16, Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press © 1999 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Originally published as Das Passagen-Werk, ed. Rolf Tiedeman © 1982 by Suhrkamp Verlag; “Language and Logic” and “Language and Logic II,” trans. Rodney Livingstone, reprinted by permission of the publisher from Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Vol. 1, 1913–1926, eds. Marcus Bullock and Michael W. Jennings, pp. 272–73, Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press © 1996 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College; “Dream Kitsch: Gloss on Surrealism,” trans. Howard Eiland, “Spain, 1932,” trans. Rodney Livingstone, and “Little History of Photography,” trans. Edmund Jephcott and Kingsley Shorter, reprinted by permission of the publisher from Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Vol. 2, 1927–1934, trans. Rodney Livingstone and others, eds. Michael W. Jennings, Howard Eiland, and Gary Smith, pp. 3–5, 638–39, 514–15, Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press © 1999 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College; “A Berlin Chronicle,” Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings by Walter Benjamin, English translation © 1978 by Harcourt, Inc., reprinted by permission of the Publisher.

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      Germaine Krull © Museum Folkwang, Essen

      Sasha Stone © Serge Stone, Blaricum

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