A very faithful drawing may actually tell us more about the model but despite the promptings of our critical intelligence it will never have the irrational power of the photograph to bear away our faith.
All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like a phenomenon in na… - Andre Bazin
All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like a phenomenon in na…
- Andre Bazin
The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself. - Andre Bazin
The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.
Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it. - Andre Bazin
Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.
The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it lie in a psycholog… - Andre Bazin
The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it lie in a psycholog…
The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But] the cinema reali… - Andre Bazin
The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But] the cinema reali…
A very faithful drawing may actually tell us more about the model but despite the promptings of our critical intelligence it will never have the irra… - Andre Bazin
A very faithful drawing may actually tell us more about the model but despite the promptings of our critical intelligence it will never have the irra…
Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because it is founded o… - Andre Bazin
Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because it is founded o…
All films are born free and equal. - Andre Bazin
All films are born free and equal.
[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reprod… - Andre Bazin
[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reprod…
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