First Response to "Ways of Seeing" and all those other ones

I thought that idea of paintings losing their meaning as reproductions are made of the original was a new idea for me. I like how Berger used the pictures to get his point across to the reader. I think that this help to support his point that, "Seeing comes before words."

I like how Berger talks about the difference from what paintings used to do to what they do now. He does a good job of showing that reproductions of paintings has taken the meaning and feeling out of pictures. It has made original paintings only special because they are original and not because of what they show. I like how he points out that most of these paintings are only special now because of the value that the market puts on them and not because of what they portray.