The original and a copy of an art piece and how do they affect each other
According to Walter Benjamin, the main difference between the original and a copy of the art piece is that the original art piece holds value through its history. It portrays it’s time. It holds value through rituals, rather than through cults.
Walter Benjamin writes of the loss of the aura through the mechanical reproduction of art itself. The aura for Benjamin represents the originality and authenticity of a work of art that has not been reproduced. A painting as an aura while a photograph does not; the photograph is an image of an image while the painting remains utterly original.
A work of art that is copied is cut off from its original position and place, its unique embodiment, and the tradition that its unique history
