Can ART be mechanically reproduced?

When something is reproduced for so many times is that art? What's the importance of the mechanical reproducibility of the art? What was the impact on mechanical reproducibility on the society?

If an image was reproduced so many times, it is not called as an art. Because it loses it’s uniqueness, value and respect for photographers who took it. But if it’s with the signature of the photographer, then it is okay to be copyrighted. Its just a way of saying that you respect their rights.
Is photography art, or contribution to the art? Is it just a tool used by artists?

Mechanical Reproducibility is important because it will bring art closer to people and make art more unique and artistic. It makes art more available and it also created new types of image. The importance of art in society has shifted over time. Mechanical reproduction reflects all the reality of society. 

How and why Henry Pitch Robinson created Feading Away? What was the reason?

Henry Pitch Robinson's
Fading Away

Photography is a form of art, if it is done creatively, uniquely and artistically. Artists uses different kinds of art and medium like positions, lightings and effects to have a beautiful outcome of an image. 

Henry Pitch Robinson’s Fading Away (1858) was made by combining five negatives together which formed one picture. In the image it shows the peaceful death of a young girl surrounded by her grieving family. The reason behind this image is that Robinsons wants to share the truth of what was the family’s going through when they loses their loved one.

Photography has impacted the world of art and influenced some changes in the area of accessibility to art. If mechanical reproduction created revolution, what is happening now with the digitalization?

Digitalization impacts how the industry uses the medium and how consumers gather information. It is one way of how people can see and share art through modern technology.




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