Modern Vision.

Benjamin argues, “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 no sense.” With saying this he is getting his point of view across of how technology is changing and at that point of time one of the big changes is the ability to more easily reproduce work so accurately compared to the past that we don’t need the original.

I agree with this and that because of the new technology we have and especially with digital media to have the original other than the point of being reproduced is irrelevant, for example if someone makes a poster or some digital media on the internet and it is widely produced where you have the original or copy of it in the end you are getting the same image and if there is no difference about it to the point where it would be even impossible to know which one was the original then there is nothing to gain from having the original. This also has an impact of the aura of the original where now days you would show someone your copies of your work and then the originals on a screen and it would not be anywhere near as impressive and special as something like the paintings describing moments in history such as the Oath of the Horatii, 1784 by Jacques Louis David.