The invention of the camera changed perception of the world- it changed not only what we see but how we see it. Berger touches on the idea that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and this makes the eye the center of the visible world. The videos "question the assumptions usually made about the tradition of European paintings" (1) The first episode in the series draws on Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, and the idea that the reproduction of art such as paintings separates the piece's modern context from the context of which the piece was created. Ways of Seeing is a four part BBC video series, created by John Berger and producer Mike Dibb in 1972.
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