Benjamin reversed his judgment of photography from opportunity to impoverishment.

Evidence

Photography was no longer seen, as in the essay on the work of art, as a necessity out of which a virtue could be madeas an opportunitybut instead purely as an impoverishment: `to the eyes that will never have their fill of a painting, photography is rather like food for the hungry or drink for the thirsty.’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 229

Categorization

• XREF: Directly ties back to the artwork essay’s thesis on mechanical reproduction as politically enabling. — connects to: Benjamin reversed his earlier view that hermetic avant-garde art serves revolution; Benjamin treated mass reproduction’s debasement of art as a salutary rupturing of artificial aura — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 847; Benjamin deliberately inverted Klages’ backward gaze into a forward-looking dialectics. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 853
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Benjamin reversed his earlier view that hermetic avant-garde art serves revolution; Benjamin treated mass reproduction’s debasement of art as a salutary rupturing of artificial aura — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 847; Benjamin deliberately inverted Klages’ backward gaze into a forward-looking dialectics. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 853

Broader Connections

• Benjamin treated mass reproduction’s debasement of art as a salutary rupturing of artificial aura #complicates (0.76) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 847