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benjamin josef
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“All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.“

Walter Bendix Schoenflies Benjamin
15 07 1892 Berlin / 26 09 1940 Portbou

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he’s playing him like a fiddle
October 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
-room with a view -
guillemins liège belgium
31 05 2024 16:30
October 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
paris, i miss you … not because you are gone, but because you taught me often to see. to pause. to listen to the murmurs of space. these photographs are fragments of that conversation … small attempts to hold onto the fleeting poetry of light, reflection, and time.
October 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
walter benjamin’s arcades project often returns to me when i walk through these passages … his idea that the arcade is both a dream and a ruin, a place where modernity reveals its ghostly aura. in these images, i recognize that same melancholy radiance.
October 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
the second photograph is denser, more layered … a bookshop overflowing with paper and dust, the cracked marble under my shoes, the smell of old ink. i felt a deep tenderness for this scene, as if it held all the unfinished stories of those who had passed before me.
October 11, 2025 at 11:11 AM
… between the public and the private, the intimate and the monumental. it felt like walking through an interior landscape of thought.
October 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
in the first image, i remember the stillness most of all … the narrow corridor of the passage, the soft echo of footsteps, a couple alone with theit drinks. above the glass roof gathers the grey light of the city. everything seems to breathe slowly. i was drawn to that fragile balance …
October 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
besitz und vertrieb > gefängnisstrafe ohne bewährung
July 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
ich habe paris gelesen : )
July 24, 2025 at 10:19 AM
♥︎♡
June 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
May 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
originally posted on bluesky with the intention to vanish, i chose instead to let it remain, like a fleeting moment allowed to settle, quietly, into permanence.
May 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
- scarlet -
gardens by the bay singapore
01 05 2025 14:56

alt:
two delicate flowers of cordia sebestena, also known as scarlet cordia or geiger tree, linger against a backdrop of textured leaves, their pale, crumpled petals softly catching the light.
May 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
March 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
merci bien : )
March 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM