12/25/2023 0 Comments Bazinhuman hand intervened cast a shadow of doubt over the image is unavoidable.![]() The fact that a human hand intervened cast a shadow of doubt over the image.” (p.12) “No matter how skillful the painter, his work was always in fee to an inescapable subjectivity. “Photography and the cinema on the other hand are discoveries that satisfy, once and for all and its very essense, our obsession with realism.” (p.12) “…photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.” (p. It is a purely mental need, of itself nonaesthetic, the origins of which must be sought in the proclivity of the mind towards magic.” (p. “the need for illusion has not ceased to trouble the heart of painitng since the sixteenth century. ![]() Note: Wow! Bazin could have predicted the coming of Videogames, although in here he is pertaining to photography, but it very much shares the quality of videogames in his description. ![]() It is no longer a question of survival after death, but of a larger concept, the creation of an ideal world in the likeness of the real, with its own temporal destiny.” (p.10) Today the making of images no longer shares an anthropocentric, utilitarian purpose. “…image helps us to remember the subject and to preserve him from a second spiritual death. ![]() From What is Cinema? Volume 1, pages 10-17 ![]()
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