Pictures of Pictures Response

Taking pictures of pictures is so common today. I do it all the time and I think that the reason we take pictures of pictures of pictures of art is because we all have this need to capture and document what we see. Not everyone has the opportunity to go see the artwork featured in the Venice Biennale, and those who do cannot take the artwork they enjoyed most, back home with them. Therefore, the camera is the tool that helps us to somehow bring back home the artwork with us and show others who weren’t able to see them live for themselves. It’s similar to “Travel Photography” that we went over in class. Not everyone could go to Egypt or Italy, so photographers would travel for us and document the most beautiful places in the counties they went to. They would come back with many photographs that showed what Egypt or Italy were like, and one would feel as if they had been there themselves through observing the photographs. Taking pictures of pictures has that same concept to it, people who have had the privilege to go to the Venice Biennale or elsewhere, document and capture what they see as a way to bring it back to others who didn’t see it and also as a way to travel back to the Venice Biennale when they return home, through the observing of the photographs that they took.