Photography and Cinema

of avant-garde cinema and theatre tends to involve stopping that flow, shocking audiences out of their daydream, often by having ...

Melancholy, pensiveness, listlessness, boredom and fatigue are the states that seem to appeal to contemporary tableau photograph ...

Similarly, buying old film stills to reuse them cost next to nothing.^24 Artists worked cheaply and there was no art market to s ...

All her life She had been a successful writer and speaker. Yet after every public performance she felt intensely anxious ‘Had sh ...

theory with the cheap psychology beloved of film noir trailers and posters. The conversion of an edited film scene into a single ...

aside. Eventually, Sekula is removed by security guards for trespassing.^28 The reference to the first publicly screened film, t ...

127 Allan Sekula,UntitledSlideSequence, 1972; 25 black-and-white transparencies show the end of the day shift at the General Dyn ...

146 I began this book with a description of the Lumières’ 1895 film of the French Congress of Photographic Societies disembarkin ...

to the new technologies that are said to be blurring the once distinct boundaries between them. I have discussed some of these a ...

148 Introduction 1 This wasLa Sortie des usines Lumière[Workers Leaving a Factory] ( 1895 ), screened in Paris on 28 December 18 ...

149 Cartier-Bresson: Man, Image, World. A Retrospective(London, 2003 ), pp. 348 – 55. 8 Launched in France in 1920 and manufactu ...

only seven or eight frames instead of like here [Jeanne Moreau’s frozen poses inJules et Jim] which are frozen for thirty to thi ...

151 See David Campany, ‘The Career of a Photographer, the Career of a Photograph: Bill Brandt’s Art of the Document’, in Tanya B ...

is not repressed (anoemecannot be repressed) but experienced with indifference, as a feature which goes without saying.’ Roland ...

153 four:ArtandtheFilmStill 1 Clement Greenberg, ‘The Camera’s Glass Eye: A Review of an Exhibition of Edward Weston’,The Nation ...

ed. Bill Nichols (Los Angeles, 1976 ), pp. 325 – 38 ; for a non-visual definition, see Slavoj Zizek, ‘“The Thing That Thinks”: T ...

Dufour, Diane, and Serge Toubiana,The Image To Come: How Cinema Inspires Photographers(Göttingen, 2007 ) Durden, Mark, ‘Defining ...

I began to think about these images and ideas when Sophie Howarth asked me to give two series of public seminars under the title ...

157 The author and publishers wish to express their thanks to the follow- ing sources of illustrative material and/or permission ...

158 Abbott, Berenice 126 Ahtila, Eija-Liisa 39 Akerman, Chantal 37 Altman, Robert, 90 Antonioni, Michelangelo 37 , 55 , 57 , 69 ...