What Is Cinema? Josiah Phillips

This text thoroughly explores photography and its relation to painting and cinema. A few things about this text was very interesting to me. Preservation was a big topic discussed, and I found it interesting that many paintings were painted for the purpose of preserving the idea/memory of something or someone. Next, the author talks about the difference and fight between style and likeness. Painters, and art in general, usually follow a pendulum of realism and abstract. Photography can capture an image perfectly and makes like-real painting obsolete. This frees up painters to focus on more stylized, abstract forms of painting. Next, the author talks about how photography is incredibly creative and ends by mentioning how movies are just photos that also capture time. Overall, this text was very interesting, and it makes me wonder about the effect photo editing would have on the author's opinion.

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