Making images move : photographers and avant-garde cinema / Jan-Christopher Horak.

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Horak, Jan-Christopher.

Title & Author:

Making images move : photographers and avant-garde cinema / Jan-Christopher Horak.

Publication:

Description:

xii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-294) and index.
Filmography: pages 267-286.
Photographers and film: an introduction. -- Chris Marker: photographic journeys. -- Helmar Lerski: the penetrating power of light. -- Paul Strand: romantic modernist. -- László Moholy-Nagy: the constructivist urge. -- Helen Levitt: seeing with one's own eyes. -- Robert Frank: daddy searching for the truth. -- Danny Lyon: that space of an absolute freedom. -- Ed van der Elsken: the infatuated camera.

Summary:

In Making Images Move, Jan-Christopher Horak looks at the work of eight European and American photographers whose films illustrate the gradual fragmentation of realistic narratives during the last eighty years. In close analyses of specific works, he shows how the visions of early practitioners such as Paul Strand and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, who tried to create meaningful political statements using modernist techniques, gave way to the more personal - though no less socially conscious - creations of 1960s and 1970s filmmakers such as Chris Marker, Robert Frank, and Danny Lyon. Even documentary became more subjective, with Helen Levitt pioneering the use of the handheld camera and intuitive editing in her 1946 film, In the Street. Horak argues that photographers who have ventured into filmmaking, while fruitfully exploiting the differences between the two genres, often have been able to retain both their technical styles and complex thematic concerns. Including a filmography of more than 130 photographer-filmmakers, Making Images Move illuminates the instrumental role of these artists in the evolution of experimental cinema.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

1560987448 (alk. paper)
9781560987444 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Cinematography Europe History 20th century.
Cinematography United States History 20th century.
Experimental films Europe History and criticism.
Experimental films United States History and criticism.
Cinematographers Europe History 20th century.
Cinematographers United States History 20th century.
Photographers Europe History 20th century.
Photographers United States History 20th century.
Motion pictures Europe History 20th century.
Motion pictures United States History 20th century.
Cinéma Europe Histoire 20e siècle.
Cinéma États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Directeurs de la photographie Europe Histoire 20e siècle.
Directeurs de la photographie États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Photographes Europe Histoire 20e siècle.
Photographes États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Cinematographers
Cinematography
Experimental films
Photographers
Experimentalfilm
Fotograf
Filmschaffender
Fotografie
Films.
Avant-garde.
Fotografen.
Filmregisseurs.
Cinematography Europe History.
Cinematography United States History.
Photographie et cinéma 20e siècle.
Cinéma expérimental 20e siècle.
Europe
United States

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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

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Location: Library main 178857
Call No.: ID TR848.H67; ID:98-B1347
Status: Available

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