“The stripping bare of the object, the destruction of the aura, is the mark of a perception whose sense of the sameness of things has grown to the point where even the singular, the unique, is divested of its uniqueness — by means of its reproduction.”
Walter Benjamin, A Small History of Photography
“For the aura has to do with the presence of the original, with authenticity, with the unique existence of the work of art in the place in which it happens to be.”
Douglas Crimp, The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism
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