...reproduction. But "even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be" (ibid., p. 222). When Benjamin claims that reproduction kills the "aura" of a work of art, he is unknowingly...

...the Modern World Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be. This unique existence of the work of art determined the history to which it was subject throughout...

..."exhibited," the mechanically reproduced work of art loses — in contrast to the traditional work — its "presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be."1 Benjamin argues that a new mode of perception of the work, a new form of consciousness, must...

...Benjamin has written, "Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be." That is also the characteristic of the White City and the Midway. See Walter Benjamin, "The Work of...

...ability to exist singly. "Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art," as he says, lacks "its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be" ([1936] 1969, 220). This authority of uniqueness, this testimony of subsequent ages to uniqueness -...

...advent of photography, then film, is the "aura" of the work of art, what Benjamin characterizes as its "presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be." 67 But stamp collecting itself seems grounded in the aura of the rarest of stamps, "the one penny British...

...Benjamin observed that "even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be," he suggested two greater truths as well: that part of the work of art is its particular time and place,...

...Walter Benjamin describes. Instead, she contains the "aura" that is lost once "a work of art," with "its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be," is banished to make way for its copy.18 Therefore, she is ahistorical, apolitical, a danger to us all,...

...most perfect reproduction of a work of art," wrote Benjamin in 1936, is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be. . . . One might subsume the eliminated element in the term "aura" and go on to say: that which withers...

...quantities of evidence. The sense of aura described by Walter Benjamin vanishes — "[a work of art's] presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be."2 Everything is up for grabs in a gigantic reshuffling of the stuff of everyday life. Everything,...