How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has the stature of the film remained undiminished by the passage of time (except in a… — 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
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
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
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
The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself. — Andre Bazin Copy Share
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
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
[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
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
Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it. — Andre Bazin Copy Share
