Photography and Cinema

cinema.Werecognizesomethinguniqueinitsqualitieswhileknowing

thatthosequalitiesarethemselvesamixofcodesderivednotjustfrom

cinemaandphotographybutalsopaintingandtheatre.Itisadistinctive

combinationofunoriginalparts.Thestillalsopresentsincompressed

formmanyoftheconcernsofthisstudy.Thefirstchapterisabriefhistory

ofstillness,lookingatwhatitmeantforphotographyandfilmacrossthe

twentiethcentury.ChapterTwotakesupthefactthatphotographshave

beenmadetoworkinrelationtoeachotheroftenontheprintedpage,

assequencesandseries,asstoriesandanti-stories.ChapterThreelooks

atthewaycinemathinksaboutphotographsandphotographers,while

ChapterFourreflectsontheplaceofcinemaandthefilmstillincontem-

poraryartphotography.

Thisisarelativelysmallbookaboutalargesubject.Assuch,itisnot

anexhaustiveencyclopaedia.Theaimistoofferaframeworkforthinking

abouttheprofoundinterrelationofphotographyandcinemaandthe

equallyprofounddifferences.Thereaderisfreetoreshufflethetheories

andimagesdiscussedintoahistoryofsorts.Thereiscertainlyahistory

here,butchronologyhasnotbeentheprimaryaim.Rather,theapproach

isthematic.

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