Task 2 - Benjamin & Mechanical Reproduction Research

Quotes from the essay to potentially use:

• Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.
• The which whitters in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art.
• We define the aura of the latter as the unique phenomenon of a distance, however close it may be.
• Mechanical reproduction of art changes the reaction of the masses towards art.
• The spectators process of association in view of these images is indeed interrupted by their constant, sudden change.
• Quantity has been transmitted into quality.
• Technical reproduction can put the copy of the original into situation which would be out of reach for the original itself.