About Andre Bazin
French film critic and theorist (1918–1958)... | André Bazin was a renowned and influential French film critic and film theorist. He started to write about movies in 1943 and was a co-founder of the renowned film magazine Cahiers du cinéma in 1951 alongside Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca.
![“The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well.” quote by Andre Bazin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/40f/andre-bazin-36481_casts_the-photographer-proceeds-via-the-interm_2133426.png)
![“[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model.” quote by Andre Bazin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/21d/andre-bazin-36481_becoming_the-photograph-is-the-object-itself-it-s_2150395.jpg)
