Response to The Ontology of the Photographic Image

I liked Bazin’s interesting comparison between painting and photography. I’ve never thought in that perspective. Painting and it's attempting to the production of realism encounters a problem on combining both, the representation of an emotionally real and the representation of the physically real. Even, painting makes immortal what is mortal, painting can successfully express the emotional real but the reproduction of physical real will always lean towards illusion.  I believe that Bazin meant and I agree with that is , the painting art refers back to the painter and his paint. It doesn't refer to the image that was based on. And Cinema and Photography that satisfy our obsession with realism. Photography removes the artist fingerprint evident in the medium of painting and sculpture and it’s much more in line with personal perception. So film and photography most of the times represent an object rather than replace it, which painting and sculpture do. And realism is the optimum style of a film.

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