10 ‘Shock’: the value of emotion
Jason Barker
Figure 10.1 ‘The real face of war’
INTRODUCTION
The aura of the photographic image is a complex one which also encompasses numerous ethical and moral questions. The modern invention of photography in the 19th century signifies a revolution in the arts comparable to the discovery of perspective in the Renaissance. Yet what accompanies that artistic revolution and has threatened to efface its aura ever since is, as Walter Benjamin recognises, the mechanism of reproduction. Something happens to the image alongside photography’s subsumption by the mass media. A change occurs between portraiture ...
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