![]() ![]() ![]() The camera has destroyed the original meaning, but has also given it many others.īerger says original works are still worth being experienced in many ways, but only if it is ‘stripped away from false myserties’. Now they are used as pieces of information in different contexts and situations. It no longer has a place like it used to. The painting changes environment and sometimes we control it. ‘And in permitting the reproduction to meet the beholder or listener in his own particular situation, it reactivates the object reproduced.’ (Benjamin 1935) You are seeing them in the context of your own life’. ‘The camera reproduces the painting making it available in any size, anywhere, for any purpose. In his video, Berger describes the revolutionary effect of the ‘mechanical eye’ in this manner. Now, a painting can appear at a place and simultaneously in another as well. ![]() It is a conversation about the camera and how it changed art by making it reproducible and easily accessible. Walter Benjamin’s essay is the core of John Berger’s Program “Ways of Seeing / Episode 1”. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |