As an aspiring photographer, I found the writings in this chapter about photography to be particularly intriguing. The concept of the "noeme" of photography is an interesting point of view. As stated on page 193 of the text. The term noeme comes from the word phenomenology, a study "devoted to the study of embodied sensory experience, which is regarded as the root of being and knowledge". A major difference between the photograph and the painting is that the photograph guaranties the presence of the camera and film with the subject. The painting guarantees no co presence with the subject.

One of the great things about the ability to reproduce images is that people can appreciate art that they probably never would have seen, otherwise. I don't think that the reproduction in any way detracts from the value of the original artwork, but it still gives the every day common man a chance to appreciate art in its reproduced form. Many artists have made an art form of reproduction itself.