beencompressedsothattheyareallthereforusatonce,asifinagallery.
Wecannotactuallylookatthemallatonce,butwecanroamaroundthe
pictureatourownpace.(Infact,thisisjusthowthefilmopens,witha
longtakethatmovesaroundthecourtyardandtheapartment).The
photojournalistishuntingasinglemomentperhaps,butwegetthe
wholescenarioinadifferentkindofphotographwithadifferentsenseof
time,closertothetableau.Itisanimagenotsomuch‘from’Rear Window
as‘of’it,asawhole.
Thisimagecouldonlybeafilmstill.Itlookslikenothingelse,except
20 perhapsthekindofcontemporaryartphotographthatisindebtedto
14 RearWindow(AlfredHitchcock,1954).