“[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model.” ProcessVirtueShareObjectsBecomingModelsPhotographReproduction Book:What Is Cinema? Source: What Is Cinema?
“The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well.” WellsRealizingObjectsPhotographerCastsCinemaParadoxLensesLuminousDuration Author:Andre Bazin