"What the modern means of reproduction have done is destroy the authority of art and to remove it - or rather, to remove the images which they reproduce - from any preserve. For the first time ever, images of art have become ephemeral, ubiquitous, insubstantial, available, valueless, free. They surround us the way language surrounds us. [. . .]
The art of the past no longer exists as it once did. It's authority is lost. In its place there is a language of images. What matters now is who uses that language for what purpose."
~ John Berger
Day 13 Gaza
Palestinians gathered around the ruins of Al Noor Mosque destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City.
Photo: Hatem Moussa/Associated Press
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John Berger: Political Ways of Seeing
The Eumenides--St. John, 1991
