Dave MaceyMA                     Photographer

With this chapter I didn’t feel that he was particularly breaking new ground. He starts by talking about the use value of objects and of...

In this part he is making talking about how through reproducing the work of art it becomes removed from its original cultural context and...

This chapter mainly talks about using photography with other medias and also in different ways that they can be displayed. In the...

In this chapter I felt that Soutter was trying to cram too much into it. She starts with talking about when digital first appeared an...

The over riding theme of this chapter is of how authenticity has been linked to self expression, as a genuine expression of what the...

In this chapter Soutter looks how documentary photography has influenced the art photograph. She starts by claiming that documentary...

For this chapter Soutter tackles the deadpan and banal image and how they have become involved in post modernism. She starts by...

Soutter starts by looking at Duchamp and especially his urinal and in the way it pushed the boundaries of art. She then also talks about...

Lucy Soutter Why art photography. So, after reading The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, I have now moved onto Why Art...

I was expecting a summary of the essay but instead he talks more about the politicization of art and the rise of fascism. This I feel is...

I must admit that with this chapter, it feels that I didn’t really grasp it, that I’ve only understood part of it. He starts by stating...

In this chapter Benjamin mainly relates film to the art movement of Dadaism and how it sought to make the masses react. He starts by...

I feel that in this chapter Benjamin has gone off at bit of a tangent as he talked a lot about psychoanalysis, which first came to...

Benjamin opens this chapter by stating that the relationship between art and the masses has been changed by mechanical reproduction. He...

From the beginning he is asserting that film is seen from different angles, that the cameraman is shooting the scene from different...

Benjamin has used this chapter to talk more about film and starts by discussing how the reflection of the actor is separated from the...

In this chapter Benjamin mainly talks about the actor and explores the difference between acting to an audience and to acting to the...

Again this is another really short chapter, is only a paragraph long. He carries on from the previous chapter talking about film but he...

I must admit, I didn’t get too much out of this chapter. He mainly seemed to take a diversion and stat talking more about film, which is...

The chapters seem to be getting shorter, this one is only one paragraph! Initially Benjamin suggests that photography has unbalanced the...