A
philosophical investigation into the differing sensations of time in
cinema and photography
PHOTOGRAPHY, CINEMA, MEMORY: The Crystal Image of Time
Damian Sutton
University of
Minnesota Press | 288 pages | 2009
ISBN 978-0-8166-4739-2 | paperback | $25.00
ISBN 978-0-8166-4738-5 | hardcover | $75.00
Damian Sutton explores time in both cinema and photography to present a
radical new understanding of the photographic image as always coming
into being. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's concept of the crystal image to
move beyond the tropes of immobility, stasis, and death, Sutton's
analysis reveals the open-endedness of time expressed in the photograph.
"This book adds an important dimension to the contemporary study of
photography. As the oldest of our new media technologies takes new
forms and enters a complex phase, our traditional theories of
photography, the photograph, and the 'photographic' are being tested.
Firmly based in a consummate grasp of photographic culture and theory,
as well as its limits and challenges, Damian Sutton explores how
Deleuze's influential philosophy of the cinematic image can also
illuminate our understanding of its foundational element: the
photographic image itself. Photography, Cinema, Memory
should take a place on the short shelf of new and significant thinking
about photography." -Martin Lister, University of the West of England,
Bristol
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