Saturday, September 11, 2010

on art.

"The uniqueness of every painting was once part of the uniqueness of the place where it resided.  Sometimes the painting was transportable.  But it could never be seen in two places at the same time.  When the camera reproduces a painting, it destroys the uniqueness of its image.  As a result its meaning changes.  Or, more exactly, its meaning multiplies and fragments into many meanings."

-Ways of Seeing, John Berger

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