Thursday, December 3, 2009

Research no.14: The Ontology of the Photographic Image

The Ontology of the Photographic Image
André Bazin; Hugh Gray
Film Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 4. (Summer, 1960), pp. 4-9

This was a really interesting read discussing the plastic arts, problems of realism within painting throughout time and how photography's advent affected this. I found it interesting that when compared to painting, something requiring the interaction of a human hand much more heavily than in photography, photographs are taken as truth, fact, and as effectively representing reality.





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