The Aura of a Work of Art

There is an immediacy to my experience of the moon, because we are subject and object co existing at a particular moment in space and time together. But on the other hand, there is a distance between subject and object. It's this distance that allows for the aesthetic experience that's not possible on the camera on my phone. People can take as many pictures as they want. The whole selling point of the photograph is that we can visually capture reality, and it can exist outside of space and time. Benhemine would say that during is time, the world is entering into an age where visual representations of reality aren't limited to how many paintings you can produce.