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Film theorist

Christian Metz, born on December 12, 1931 and died in 1993, was one of the most influential film theorists of the 20th century. He is known for his pioneering work in film semiotics, narrative theory, and ideological analysis.

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“The person who has been photographed, not the total person, is dead, dead for having been seen.”

Persons Has Beens

Author:Christian Metz

“The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word.”

People Order Ordinary Photograph Familiar Fetish

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“Photography is linked with death in many different ways. The most immediate and explicit is the social practice of keeping photographs in memory of loved beings who are no longer alive. But there is another real death which each of us undergoes every day, as each day we draw nearer to our own death. Even when the person photographed is still living, that moment when she or he was has forever vanished.”

Way Persons Stills Different Real Moments Social Memories Practice Forever Alive Photography Draws Photograph Different Ways Each Day That Moment Linked Explicit

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“I would say that the off-frame effect in photography results from a singular and definitive cutting-off which figures castration and is figured by the click of the shutter.”

Results Cutting Effects Figures Photography Clicks Shutters Cutting Off Castration

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“The importance of immobility and silence to photographic authority, the nonfilmic nature of this authority, leads me to some remarks on the relationship of photography with death. Immobility and silence are not only two objective aspects of death, they are also its main symbols, they figure it.”

Two Silence Figures Authority Photography Aspect Importance Objectives Symbols Remarks Leading Me

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“Photography is the mirror, more faithful than any actual mirror, in which we witness at every age, our own aging. The actual mirror accompanies us through time, thoughtfully and treacherously; it changes with us, so that we appear not to change.”

Age Photography Mirrors Aging Witness Faithful Accompany Rough Times Accompany Us

Author:Christian Metz

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Born: December 12, 1931
Died: 1993
Known for: Film theorist
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