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In ” The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” by Walter Benjamin, the reader finds the different aspects Benjamin observes in ‘modern’ art today. An example of this type of digital art is seen below. This is a person’s view looking up at London’s most famous tourist attractions. This massive Ferris Wheel is known world wide as it towers above the city giving the average traveler a birds eye view of the expansive city. For a monument known for a grand aura in reality, this digital image by far doe not do it justice. The view is distorted as we see multiple viewpoint within one picture, something that never occurs in reality.
This image, in turn, represent what Benjamin claimed as the ‘death of the aura.’ As a digitally created image, one of the 21st century would assume that whatever vantage point was captured is entirely reality and a view which anyone can experience. However, as the author explains, film, as well as still capture of moments cannot capture everything that makes those places and moments beautiful. The grandeur of the downtown London attraction is lost in the mistake made mechanically, but even if it hadn’t been there, there it is the loss of emotional drive within the scene which Benjamin refers.
Overall, this digital mistake captures the mindless efforts of the camera to capture moments which can never be encompasses simply by a lens.
A Distorted Veiw of this famous landmark