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In Ways of Seeing, the author John Berger tells us the ways we have learned to
look at and understand the images. He uses images to show how a writer truns views into
words and brings the present to the past. In his essay, image is a sight which has been recreated or
reproduced. Although every image embodies a way of seeing, different recognitions and appreciations
of an image have different views of seeing. Also, the ways of seeing is determined by the
learnt of art assumptions, such as truth, form, and taste. Thus, the assumptions conceal the past
which was mystify and may never to be discovered. Moreover, the invention of the camera changed the
ways of seeing which images became disappeared. For instance, when the camera reproduces a painting,
it removes the uniqueness of its images and destroys the idea that images were timeless. Since that, the
drawing acquired a new kind of powerful influence because of its market value but not the meaning of its
image. Finally, the image is changed by the words...