Photography, cinema, memory : the crystal image of time / Damian Sutton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sutton, Damian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography, Artistic.

Photography--Philosophy.

Photography.

Cinematography.

Physical Description:

xiii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2009]

Summary:

Cinema and photography are both intimately associated with time--cinema with time in passing, the photograph with the lost moment. In Photography, Cinema, Memory, Damian Peter Sutton explores time in both media to present a radical new understanding of the photographic image as always coming into being. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's concept of the crystal image to move beyond the tropes of immobility, stasis, and death, Sutton's analysis reveals the open-endedness of time expressed in the photograph, either as a potential for an abundant future or as a depth of meandering remembrance. He presents an innovative taxonomy of time in the photograph, considering particular representations of time in the work of Nan Goldin, Eugène Atget, Andy Warhol, and others. He contrasts this taxonomy with representations of time in cinema since 1895, offering fresh readings of the films of the Lumière brothers and Mitchell & Kenyon, as well as more recent works including Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amélie, and A Matter of Life and Death. Throughout this work, Sutton connects and grounds cinema and photography as starting points to comprehend how we come to terms, ultimately, with time itself as pure, immanent change.

Contents:

Cinema and the event of photography

Photographic memory, photographic time

The division of time

Cinema's photographic view

How does a photograph work?

Becoming-photography

The new uses of photography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816647385

0816647380

9780816647392

0816647399

OCLC:

286478100