Tag: Benjamin

‘The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t’

Does digital reproduction drive down the cost of all cultural content to zero? Are artists doomed to penury in the 21st century? Steven Johnson in the New York Times Magazine suggests not: Writers, performers, directors and even musicians report their economic fortunes to be similar to those of their counterparts 15 years ago, and in…

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William Eggleston in the age of mechanical reproduction

In his seminal ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ (1936), Walter Benjamin writes: To an ever greater degree the work of art reproduced becomes the work of art designed for reproducibility. From a photographic negative, for example, one can make any number of prints; to ask for the “authentic” print makes…

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