Streitberger, Alexander
[UCL]
The encounter between photography and film in the medium of the book has a long tradition. Already in the late 19th century Maximilian Sklandanowsky produced small booklets called ‘living photographs’ containing a succession of photographs in order to create the illusion of movement by flipping through the pages. In the avant-gardes artists such as Moï Ver conceived photobooks with cinematic qualities where montage and superposition served as techniques to represent the dynamic structure of urban life. This paper focuses on the various ways contemporary artists such as Marcel Broodthaers, Peter Downsbrough, Victor Burgin and Hans Op de Beeck use the book as a place of encounters between photography and film in order to abandon the exclusive model of medium specificity in favor of an integrative and dialogical model of interacting media. Operating in the intersection of photographic and filmic modes of presentation and perception, these books have to be understood as hybrid inter-media forms where perceptional, historical and cultural conventions of cinema and photography are put on the test.
Bibliographic reference |
Streitberger, Alexander. Shifting Perceptions. The Artist's Book as a Place of Encounters between Photography and Film.SHARP 2014 - Religions of the Book (Anvers, du 17/09/2014 au 20/09/2014). |
Permanent URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/157768 |