for this weeks post i will talk about  “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” by Walter Benjamin. in this article the author talks about authenticity and art. while reading this article, i began to recall all the museums and art shows i went too, wondering if all the pieces i seen were legit work or just copied. when we are told work is an original piece we rarely think it could be a phony or altered in any way. as i get older i begin to see that claims of authenticity are accepted by those who are naive to art. in my production class i begin to see how ones perception can be manipulated by editors to give viewers a set perspective. although it is presented as authentic, the alterations made to the work make it less than real. we are constantly surrounded by so called authentic work but without proper digging and inspecting of a pieces history, we must stay skeptical to its authenticity.

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