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Photography and Cinema

Photography and Cinema

by David Campany
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/11/2007

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What did the arrival of cinema do for photography? How did the moving image change our relation to the still image? Why have cinema and photography been so drawn to each other? Close-ups, freeze frames and the countless portrayals of photographers on screen are signs of cinema's enduring attraction to the still image. Photo-stories, sequences and staged tableaux speak of the deep influence of cinema on photography. "Photography and Cinema" considers the importance of the still image for filmmakers such as the Lumiere brothers, Alfred Hitchcock, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Mark Lewis, Agnes Varda, Peter Weir, Christopher Nolan and many others. In parallel, it looks at the cinematic in the work of photographers and artists that include Germaine Krull, William Klein, John Baldessari, Jeff Wall, Victor Burgin and Cindy Sherman. From film stills and flipbooks to slide shows and digital imaging, hybrid visual forms have established an ambiguous realm between motion and stillness. David Campany assembles a missing history in which photography and cinema have been each other's muse and inspiration for over a century.
ISBN:
9781861893512
9781861893512
Category:
Photographs: collections
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-11-2007
Language:
English
Publisher:
Reaktion Books
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
144
Dimensions (mm):
220x190x15mm
Weight:
0.57kg
David Campany

David Campany is a writer, curator and artist, working mainly with photography. He's author of A Handful of Dust (2015), The Open Road: photography and the American road trip (2014), Walker Evans: the magazine work (2014), Gasoline (2013), Jeff Wall: Picture for Women (2010), Photography and Cinema (2008) and Art and Photography (2003).

He has written over two hundred essays for museums and monographic books, and contributes to Frieze, Aperture, Source and Tate magazine. For his writing, David has received the ICP Infinity Award, the Kraszna-Krausz Book Award, the Alice Award, a Deutscher Fotobuchpreis, and the Royal Photographic Society's award for writing. Currently he teaches at the University of Westminster, London.

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