This slide is my favourite as it's of huge historical significance and it provides fascinating insights of how the famous forbidden city was like in 1900. Beautiful landscape and view taken of this historical site, what's more amazing is that it is still standing today but it was first explored and went to public in the 1900. 

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This week's lesson has taught me pretty much the notion of discovery and exploration with the medium. What i have just realised was that Gilles took us around the world (metaphorically), to show us the "where" and "when" these images were produced, particularly "when" so that we can make our own visual connections of the timeline where photography as a medium had sort of extended itself out throughout the world in the course of this period.  Quoting from The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin: 

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"Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be. This unique existence of the work of art determined the history to which was subject throughout the time of its existence. This includes the changes which it may have suffered in physical condition over the years as well as various changes in its ownership." 

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