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“Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.”

Book:What Is Cinema?

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What Is Cinema?

An in-depth analysis of the evolution, principles, and impact of cinema as an art form more

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Andre Bazin

Andre Bazin, born on April 18, 1918 and died on November 11, 1958, was one of the most influential film critics of the 20th century. He is renowned for his profound film theory and unique insights into the art of cinema. more

“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.”

Men Way Doe Play Facts Lying Found Process Results Achieve Essentials Photography Solutions Illusion Wit Psychological Factors Transition Appetite Satisfying Reproduction Baroque

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.”

Process Virtue Share Objects Becoming Models Photograph Reproduction

Book:What Is Cinema?

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“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.”

Wells Realizing Objects Photographer Casts Cinema Paradox Lenses Luminous Duration

Author:Andre Bazin

“The people know more about [Jazz] in other countries than in America. America is the last country to know about anything, because we're too fat, we have too much of everything, you understand? And we do not listen.”

People Knows Country Lasts America Too Much Jazz Fats Other Countries

Author:Art Blakey

“They say that Jazz is back, and I don't think it's gone anywhere. But they say it's back.”

Thinking Gone Jazz

Author:Art Blakey

“The Schnauzer listens to jazz. I listen to jazz because he likes it, and I have even gone to jazz concerts with him, but truthfully I would rather listen to retarded children pounding on pan lids with wooden spoons.”

Children Funny Gone Jazz Likes Concerts Spoons Retarded Schnauzers Wooden Spoons

Book:Magical Thinking

Source: Magical Thinking

“Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others. Photography is still a very new medium and everything is allowed and everything should be tried and dared... Photography has no rules. It is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it was achieved.”

Should Stills Matter Sports Results Judgment Photography Photographer Mediums Fads

Author:Bill Brandt

“I have less friends, but I have more Cadbury Eggs.”

Eggs Cadbury

Author:Greg Behrendt

“Young people are gross with their faces and their hope.”

People Faces Young Gross

Author:Greg Behrendt

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