“The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it lie in a psychological fact, to wit, in completely satisfying our appetite for illusion by a mechanical reproduction in the making of which man plays not part. The solution is not to be found in the result achieved, but in the way of achieving it.” MenWayDoePlayFactsLyingFoundProcessResultsAchieveEssentialsPhotographySolutionsIllusionWitPsychologicalFactorsTransitionAppetiteSatisfyingReproductionBaroque Author:Andre Bazin
“[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?