Blog Assignment #6

I agree with Walter Benjamin’s argument that to ask for an authentic print from a photographic negative makes no sense because there is no authentic print. It is different to asking for a copy of a painting as the original painting is painted how the artist wants and sees in his head, so asking for a copy of the painting would be impossible as the artist wouldn’t be able to paint the painting exactly the same again or a picture copy is still not authentic. Asking for an authentic photograph print from a negative is sort of the same in the fact that the negative is the original of the photograph, therefore asking for an authentic print would be impossible. I don’t think there is a role for ‘authentic’ in an age of digital design and manufacture as the authentic image is taken on a digital camera making it impossible for people to print the original image that was taken.