The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

In the article The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin he talks about different aspects of art. How a piece of artwork is made changes its meaning. If it is one of a kind and made by hand then there is no way it can be duplicated 100%. If a piece for example is screen printed (mechanical reproduction) than 100's of the same image can be made the last identical to the first. It is also interesting how over time somethings meaning can change. For instance when a caveman first drew an elk on a wall it was to convey a specific message to the others of his tribe. It is only as we discover these drawings years later that we consider them art. The article also brings up the argument of if photography is truly an art form. It is technically not something that is made with the human hand, but at the same time a person is the one responsible for taking the image and producing it. Not gonna lie, i found this article very hard to read through at first. I had started and stopped reading it 3x before I finally was able to get into it and follow the language. That being said I found it interesting, especially the different viewpoints on what makes art art or what makes something popular in society now.