What is cinema

This series of excerpts was very 'out there', and I found it kind of hard to read-- but I did like this one quote from the book talking about photography, and it reads,  "Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image. Hence photography ranks high in the order of surrealist creativity because it produces an image that is a reality of nature, namely, a hallucination that is also a fact." I'm not sure I like the idea that there could be a subjective ranking of "surrealist creativity" but I like how the author goes on to explain, and that makes it make more sense.