Walter Benjamin is widely known as a literary critic, translator, essayist, philosopher, intellectual and the great urban wanderer of the twentieth century. For many, Benjamin’s life and death, writings and philosophy, epitomize the twentieth century and the many changes it heralded - from the rise of popular culture, the advent of photography and the emergence of the urban realm as the primary arena of human experience, to the tension between myth and reality, eternity and apocalypse.