Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption. — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set in time,… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
A very faithful drawing may actually tell us more about the model but despite the promptings of our critical intelligence it will never have… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself. — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it lie in… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But] the cinema… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness. — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like a phenomenon… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image