Complete the material/readings, read/look at the presentation (if available), post your comments, provide feedback and participate in the discussion.
Elaborate including the following issues:
When something is reproduced for so many times is that art? What’s the importance of the mechanical reproducibility of the art? What was the impact on mechanical reproducibility on the society?
What is the message in Walter Benjamin’s article?
Is photography art, or contribution to the art? Is it just a tool used by artists?
How and why Henry Peach Robinson created Fading Away? What was the reason?
Photography has impacted the world of art and influenced some changes in the area of accessibility to art. If mechanical reproduction created revolution, what is happening now with the digitalization?
Related readings and video;
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Peach-Robinson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
