Pierce, Post 3

Within the reading “The Work of Art of Its Reproducibility” there are many abstract themes. I found in the reading as a whole the theme of an ora weaves a thread throughout the article. And it can be seen from certain angles that ora has died due to technology. Pictures have a certain ora about them, an originality about its essence. But, has it really died? Maybe it is a zombie. Not dead or alive. Within the second part of the reading, there was also a lot of reference towards comparisons. The magician and surgeon simile was beautiful. He related those two professions to the camera machine and paint. I also loved when he brought up film. I quote that resonated with me was when he stated; “To photograph a painting is one kind of reproduction, but to photograph an action performed in a film studio is another. In the first case, what is reproduced is a work of art, while the act of producing it is not.” This is where he brought up the term montage and coined it as a way to create an art form out of film. I agree with this statement because movies and films as a whole are an art form. But, when one takes a snapshot of a scene, there is typically not art there within that one image. In all, this article was complex and very interesting.