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The document 'Before I ask: how does [an artwork] stand in relation to the relationships of production of a period, I would like to ask: how does it stand in them? This question aims directly as the function that the work has within the [artistic] relationships of production of a period.’ (Walter Benjamin, ‘The Author as Producer’ 1934) With this quotation in mind, and also with reference to his later essay ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ (1935-6), examine why Benjamin might have thought painting less useful than photography and film for his revolutionary aesthetic project? has been deleted.