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I feel like art is most appreciated, influential, and marvelled over when it is one of a kind. Never the less I do not think that art is any less than art when it is reproduced, take Andy Warhol for example. All of his pieces are iconic and they were all reproduced by Andy Warhol himself. They were reproduced with the idea that it didn’t matter who you were you could have a Warhol. Every copy was the same there was no glorified master copy. Each reproduction was hand silk screened in his factory. Every Warhol print had the same impact and has the same level of merit to it. 

It is important to mechanically reproduce art so it can be shared, so it can reach new audiences, the majority of the population is not going to step into a fine art museum and art is emotional and impacting and if it cannot be found inside the small worlds some people live in those people will be completely oblivious and deprived of that experience. With art reproduction in society it give those people who would not go into a museum a chance to see and judge the art and develope an opinion. 

Photography is an art. It takes skill and experience to take a memorable photo. There are a number of factors that contribute to a photo that is art title worthy. The photographer must understand composition and not anyone off the street understands that it has to be taught and experienced. The photographer must understand how to create mood, balance and contrast in a photo. Photography is not a point and shoot process it takes skill. Black and white photography is a dying art, it is even harder to take a striking photo in black and white, because of the lack of colour it is difficult to create contrast. Developing film is also a difficult process, that needs to be taught and only gets better with experience. Owning paint brushes doesn’t mean your an artist, just like owning a camera doesn’t make you a photographer. It takes a creative person to create a significant perspective. 

Henry Robinson created the combination print “Fading Away” with 5 negatives, putting them together to create one unified photograph. It depicts the death of a young girl and her loved ones around her. He created it to show a deeper and darker side of photography. Back in the 50’s and 60’s, during Robinson’s time is was not common to see this kind of subject matter. Which is why he stood out so much, it made him one of the most famous photographers in England at the time. He took “scenes from everyday life, of ordinary people in work or recreation, depicted in a generally realistic manner.”

Digitalization has helped photography grow, we can now manipulate a photograph to make it look the way we want it to. Digitalization has also revolutionized marketing and graphic design as its known today would not exist without digitalization. Software like Photoshop and Illustrator have had a huge impact on the limits and efficiency of designers work.