An assay. 5 p. From "What is Cinema?" - two volumes. Vol. 1. Published by "University of California press", London
1967.
This is the first of the selected assays in this book. It talks about
fundaments of creating of the
photographic image (whether in the cinema
or in photography.) The need of people to make images which resemble the
outer world comes from strictly
psychological fear of death - "the
preservation of life by a representation of life." Therefore the
conflict in plastic arts between it''s aesthetic and psychological
ambitions, to whom the invention of camera has put an end to. There
was no longer need for painters to preserve figures, because there is a
better tool to do so and they can deal only with the aesthetic part of
the art.
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