Ways of Seeing Video Response

This video was very interesting to view. It was quirky because it was years old. The speaker in the video tells the viewers that  "the camera allows the eye to be in places where it is not present." We take what is being photographed out of it's original context and surround it with the room and the people around us. It is a very true statement. For example, I have never been to Australia but I feel like I have a pretty good idea of what it would be like through the photographs that I've seen. I feel like I can know things that I have never experienced because I have experienced them through photography. It really is an amazing idea and gift. Images come to us, rather than us to them. The pilgrimage days are over, he says. Original paintings are very unique nowadays. Everything is so mass-produced, when you actually experience an authentic painting, it is "unlike anything in the world." This and maintaining the market value are reasons why it is so important to preserve original paintings. Without doing so, mass-production would take away value and art would be ambiguous.