John Berger/Ways of seeing 1972
The process of seeing 'is less spontaneous and natural then we tend to believe. A large part of seeing depends upon habit and convention'.
'The invention of the camera has changed not only what we see, but how we see it'.
'Once all these paintings belonged to their own place'
'The images come to you. You do not go to them. The days of pilgrimage are over'.
'Everything around the image is part of its meaning. Its uniqueness is part of the uniqueness of the single place where it is. Everything's round it confirms and consolidates its meaning'.
'Its meaning, or a large part of it, has become transmittable'.
'Pieces of information to be used, even used to persuade us to help purchase more originals which these very reproductions have in many ways replaced. '
'Original paintings are still unique. They look different from how they look on the television or on postcards. Reproductions distort.'
"survived." "genuinely." "absurdly valuable."
Cash value 'what paintings lost when the camera made them reproducible'. Meanings different
'has multiplied its possible meanings and destroyed its unique original meaning'
'Occasionally, this uninterrupted silence and the stillness of a painting can be very striking' 'I can't demonstrate this stillness, for the lines on your screen are never still.'
'the most obvious way of manipulating them is by using movement and sound' 'no longer a constant'.
'become a form of information which is constantly transmitted'
'The meaning of an image can be changed according to what you see beside it or what comes after it.'
'the ways in which reproduction makes the meaning of words of art ambiguous'
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