The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it lie in a psychological fact, to wit, in completely satisfying our appetite for illusion by a mechanical reproduction… — 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 in nature, like a flower or a snowflake whose vegetable or earthly origins are an inseparable… — 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
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/40f/andre-bazin-36481_casts_the-photographer-proceeds-via-the-interm_2133426.jpg)
![“[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/quotes/img-quotes/21d/andre-bazin-36481_becoming_the-photograph-is-the-object-itself-it-s_2150395.jpg)
