Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these developments in the reproduction of images in order.
- Photography is announced publicly
- Digital manipulation breaks the indexical guarantee
- Benjamin writes on mechanical reproduction
- Malraux describes the museum without walls
- Photographic reproduction enters art-historical teaching
Hints
- The medium precedes the teaching method that used it.
- The break with indexicality is the most recent.
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- Photography is announced publicly
- Photographic reproduction enters art-historical teaching
- Benjamin writes on mechanical reproduction
- Malraux describes the museum without walls
- Digital manipulation breaks the indexical guarantee
Why
The last item is not merely another step. Photography's authority rested on the index, and digital manipulation and synthesis remove it, which changes what the medium is, rather than what can be done with it.
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