#andre bazin

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Renowned film critic André Bazin with cat friend. Source.

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Anna Karina. Muse of the cult director of the new wave Jean-Luc Godard.

Photos from different years

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Andre Bazin - What Is Cinema Volume 1 (full text pdf linked) 

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Bicycle Thieves for Friday night.

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In my school days, when I was studying mineralogy, I remember being struck by the structure of certain fossil shells. Although the limestone was arranged in the living animal in thin parallel layers at the surface of the valves, a slow process in the dead animal had rearranged the molecules into thin crystals perpendicular to the initial direction of the layers. Apparently the shell was intact; one could still discern perfectly the original stratification of the limestone. But, when the shell was cracked, the fracture revealed that the perpendicular external pattern was completely contradicted by the parallel interior architecture.

Bazin at Work, André Bazin.

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The image helps us to remember the subject and to preserve him from a second spiritual death.

from André Bazin’s “The Ontology of the Photographic Image”

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Not sure how many are interested in academic stuff, but Angelaki recently put out this article I wrote on high frame rate, slow shutters, and the re-invention of motion in digital capture systems. Here’s a link to skip the paywall: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/vdKsIcjdKpn6pZCbnfqC/full

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Anti-Bazin