THE CINEMATIC /ANGLAIS

Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art

by Campany David

This anthology surveys the rich history of relationships between the moving and the still image in photography and film, tracing their ever-changing dialogue since early modernism. Manifestations of the cinematic in photography and of the photographic in cinema have been a springboard for the work of many of the most influential contemporary artists. Their work is contextualized here alongside the work of leading photographers and filmmakers from Muybridge and Eisenstein to the present. Contributors include Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Raymond Bellour, Anton Giulio Bragaglia, Victor Burgin, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Catherine David, Thierry de Duve, Gilles Deleuze, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Philippe Dubois, Regis Durand, Sergei Eisenstein, Mike Figgis, Hollis Frampton, Susanne Gaensheimer, Nan Goldin, Chris Marker, Christian Metz, Laura Mulvey, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Beaumont Newhall, Uriel Orlow, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Constance Penley, Richard Prince, Steve Reich, Carlo Rim, Raul Ruiz, Susan Sontag, Blake Stimson, Michael Tarantino, Agnes Varda, Jeff Wall, Andy Warhol and Peter Wollen.

Genres: Photography, Film, Art, Nonfiction, Theory, Creative

224 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2007

Reviews

[Joe]

I'm very interested in the connections between film and still photography. This book gave me po-mo gradschool flashbacks, and not in a good way. I think I would have learned more about the connection between film and photography by watching La Jetée again, followed by Le Carabiniers (for the great postcard scene). On the whole, this book is worth skimming and reading seletively. There are a few really interesting pieces in here, including a conversation between Jeff Wall, who I'm not a big fan of, and filmmaker Mike Figgis.

[Amber Dacanay]

Crewdson interview omg yay (the guy thinks about his art in a very interesting way that resonates with me a lot :D)

Also one of the texts described photography as a freezing of dialectics or something along those lines + my brain found that interesting :0

[emily]

Only three stars because the middle bits made me feel a bit bored/distracted. Mostly enjoyed the early chapters and the last chapter.

[Leticia]

The Cinematic is one of the books from the new compilation “Documents of Contemporary Art”. All books on this series contain important art essays from different topics and years.
I just finished reading this one in particular, and I would recommend it to anyone interested on photography, video and cinema.
The cinematic contains a lot about the history of cinema and photography and how they have been influencing each other as art forms since their beginning. The way we pensive photos and movies is a topic that has been under discussion from a long time and that has been challenged by artists and film makers like Chris Marker (La Jetee) and Jeff Wall both included in this book.
I would recommend looking at the complete list of books from this series and read them all or at list one since their historical content is really valuable. You won’t regret it.

[Ruth]

Good introductory overview of how we understand "the cinematic" as having both elements of duration and motion.

[John Shinn]

This is intriguing so far. Looking forward to actually getting into the meat of the book and learning something interesting.

[AJ]

While astute and probably really learned its thick and feels needlessly pretentious

[Anastasia]

A nice collection of essays on the complicated relationship between film and photography, even though somewhat redundant. Would love to if someone put a similar collection about page and screen!

[Mills College Library]

778.53 C5749 2007