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Winner of the 2009 And/Or Book Awards - Moving Image category 'In Photography and Cinema, David Campany eloquently engages with the dynamic relationship between the still photographic image and the moving cinematic one. Through a series of compelling and enlightening discussions of each medium, Campany asks us to consider how they have responded to and mediated - or been mediated by - each other, and how they engage with subjective acts of seeing and being seen ... an elegant and illuminating overview of the way these two media continue to speak to, and about, each other. Times Literary Supplement Campany suggests that while cinema's relation to photography is often covetous, it is also affectionate. Film may be the dominant medium, but it is nevertheless in thrall to photography; Photography and Cinema doesn't overstate cinema's supremacy, but it does suggest that, where and when it surpasses photography, it also lovingly enshrines it. Art Review a perfect introduction to the debates about the relationships between the moving and the still image in photography and film. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television an important contribution to recent debates on the reciprocal influence of the two media. The courage needed to undertake such a vast project, embracing more than a hundred years of common history, numerous social uses and cultural contexts as well as various theoretic approaches, commands deep respect ... the book provides an insight into central aspects of its subject matter, it gives numerous hints to relevant theoretical debates and offers insightful analysis of films, illustrated books, photo sequences and single photographs. Image and Narrative a very accessible, jargon-free written, and nicely designed introduction to a nearly inexhaustible reservoir of interesting source material and themes ... What Campany's work should mainly be praised for is that it bridges towards a larger audience. Camera Austria Photography and Cinema is an exemplary sort of book. David Campany writes extremely well and he provides lucid insights on every page. Accompanied by beautifully produced images, his text is a journey through the development of cinema and photography and their effect on each other. Modest and succinct, it is exactly what you want a book on this subject to be. -- Mike Dibb
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Viewers today move easily between film and the still image: video and DVD are thoroughly changing the nature of cinema, making it much more like a set of consumed fragments; photography has become a digital medium with increasingly undefined boundaries; even cultural theory is focusing on the points at which media intersect and overlap. It is curious then that previous histories of photography and film have been written as if the two media were all but separate. 'Photography and Cinema' brings the two together, showing how, to a large extent and in a great variety of ways, each medium has borrowed from the other, and how this has allowed them both to conquer new visual territory. David Campany explores photographers on screen; photographic and filmic stillness; photographs in film; the influence of photography on cinema; photo essays and photo novels in print; and the photographer as filmmaker. He shows how visual media are often at their most dynamic when in dialogue with one another, and how photography and cinema have had the richest and most sustained dialogues of all the arts. Considering a wide range range of material, from Alfred Hitchcock to Michael Snow; from Edward Weston to 'The Matrix'; from Leni Riefenstahl to Cindy Sherman and Jeff Wall; and from Buster Keaton to 'Bladerunner', 'Photography and Cinema' is an unusual and unprecedented mix of art, photography, and film. Featuring diverse images in colour and black and white, this is a highly stimulating and suggestive book, accessible to the general reader as well as to the specialist interested in film and photography.
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Photography and Cinema takes the reader through a well developed analysis of the similarities and distances between photography and cinema. The text is filled with a large and well selected body of references and images. Easy to read and absorb, David Campany did a good job on exploring the subject. The author shows an in depth knowledge of both fields and is able to take the reader along with him.
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