Photography and Cinema

Gordon, Gillian Wearing, Fiona Tan, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, David Claerbout, Steve McQueen, Sharon Lockhart, Stan Douglas, Mark Lewis ...

the principles of Structuralist film. Each of his works lasts roughly as long as the shortest reel of commercially available fil ...

figure seated outside the building’s entrance. A minute later the camera pans and zooms swiftly to frame a curtained window. A m ...

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44 StillPhotography,Still In photography something of this loss of faith in speed can be measured against the steady waning of i ...

literal sense. They include projects as diverse as Joel Meyerowitz’s docu- mentation of Ground Zero in New York; Paul Seawright’ ...

with an almost classical sense of place typical of traditional landscape photography. Just as the medium has been sidelined from ...

medium. It is also a question of coming to terms with the idea that documentary and photojournalism are now thoroughly allegoric ...

a hospital window. A woman in bed yells ‘Stop!’, first in shock, then with a comic swoon. What if your movie heart-throb really ...

controlled as the pickpocket ‘goes through the motions’ possessed of an inner stillness, even when moving. The grammar of cinema ...

50 36 Greta Garbo window display in a Spanish fashion store at the time of the release ofQueen Christina (Rouben Mamoulian, 1933 ...

with the help of actors, assistants and a wind machine. The result does not look like a composite since it obeys the rules of th ...

38 JeffWall,A Sudden Gust of Wind (After Hokusai)1993.Transparency in lightbox, 229 x 377cm. 39 Publicity still fromThe Wind (Vi ...

FreezeFrame No image seems more immobile than the freeze frame. Dramatized by movement, it is a species of still image that exis ...

photographs.Technically speaking, they are, of course, single photo- graphic frames repeated to give the illusion of time at a s ...

55 Garbo’slingeringclose-upscontrastswiththeeventfulposesandfreezesof Hepburn.TenyearsonfromFunny Face,intheotherwell-knownfashi ...

thrown back, he recalls Robert Capa’s famous Spanish Civil War photo of a shot soldier, combined with an athletics photo finish. ...

does not come in frames and cannot be suspended in the same way. The freeze frame must either be left silent (veryrare, either i ...

44–47 Freeze frame endings from Thelma and Louise(Ridley Scott, 1991); Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969 ...