Photography and Cinema

as Time-Slice. Multiple cameras arranged around a moving subject are all triggered at once. The resulting images are then sequen ...

60 WilliamHenryFoxTalbotannouncedphotographytotheBritishin The Pencil of Nature( 1844 – 6 ),apublicationcontaining 24 photograph ...

61 photograph’sdeficienciestherefromthe start?Onewaytoexplorethisistotracethe waysinwhichphotographshavebeenedited andsequencedi ...

andasymbolicconclusionofsorts.Moretothe point,theyaremuchmoreexplicitlyperformative, madeknowinglyforthecameraandtheeventual vie ...

‘continuoussequenceofpages’.^4 ThesameyearLászlóMoholy-Nagy arrivedattheBauhausinGermanyintentonusingthepagetosynthesize various ...

eventuallypublishedinnumerousvolumesafterthewar.Malrauxargued thatitwasthedestinyoftheartofantiquitytoberedefinedbymodernity, fi ...

exoticanimals.Theimpliedfilmwasnevermade,althoughthekaleido- scopicapproachtoformandmotifsinthesketchcanbeseeninWalter Ruttman’s ...

framesfromfilmedfootage.Stillphotographs,heargued,provide aestheticandemotionalimpressionbutlacktheprecisionoftheciné- camera,wh ...

givenconventionallayouts(portraitsofstars,shotsofcrucialscenes). Russianavant-gardecinemawasshownasstripsprintedat‘Constructivis ...

Kennedy,caughttheeventonhisamateurmoviecamera.TheTime-Life Corporationboughtexclusiverightstothe 30 secondsoffootageandprint- ed ...

towardit.^15 Printedframesdenythis,howevermanyarereproduced. AfullquartercenturyearlierBeaumontNewhallhadnotedthat‘some ofthemos ...

fromcontinentalEuropenewapproachestolayout.ForPicture PostLorant refinedtheclassicalphotostory.Brandt’s‘ThePerfectParlourmaid’( ...

58 Spread from the photo-essay ‘The Perfect Parlourmaid’,Picture Post, IV/4 (29 July 1939). Photographs by Bill Brandt. 59 Photo ...

film.Forexample,thespectraloverviewmixingsocialrealismandpoetic estrangementcanbefoundinHumphreyJennings’sclassicshortfilms Spar ...

Takenliterally,thisisanargumentformontageofthekindassociated withDadaorJohnHeartfield,withanti-realiststaging,orwiththeuse oftex ...

thememoryandimplicationsofeachnewphoto- grapharementallysuperimposedonthepreceding one,whileallowingforthekindsofforwardand back ...

indecisive,nomoreimportantthananyother.HereFrankwasmarking outaproblemthathassincebecomecentraltocontemporaryphotogra- phers:how ...

imagestogether.ShotinNewYorkduringtherehearsalsofvisitingballet companiesinthe 1930 s,thescrappybutevocativephotosweresetout ful ...

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madevividbyattentiontodetailsofthemilieu.VanderElsken’scamera poresovertheparticularsofclothing,interiorsandfaces,capturingthe i ...