Photography
New techniques
The main thing to be taken from this lecture was that the reproduction of art works devalues them in a number of different ways and this is down to the development of technology.
During this seminar we were put into pairs and given a paragraph from the text 'The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction' by Walter Benjamin. We had to read the text, discuss what we felt it meant and then feedback to the group and talk about these ideas. Myself and Kirsty were given paragraph four to look at.
The key points we got from this section of the text were;
- The value of art changes depending on the context it is in
- If something is reproduced it loses it's uniqueness but art works were reproduced so everyone could have them not just the upper class people
- With photography which is actually the original?
- As technologies began to evolve there was a sense of crisis later to come for art
- Art is treated like royalty because you tend to have to walk up a huge staircase and then whilst walking around an art gallery you talk quietly as though you are treating the pieces with respect
- When it's authority gets threatened by reproduction it recoils in order to try and save itself
- Tradition is changed by this idea of reproduction, it is lost.
- Art is described as the cult of beauty due to its uniqueness but this has declined due to reproduction
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