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Still photography?(essay)(Critical Essay)

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Date: 20050301
Author:Cholodenko, Alan

Death shadows, specters, the photograph, as it does the cinema. That this is the case for the photograph is now a common understanding. I will come back to it. As for the cinema, death is inscribed there from its very advent, including in the first substantial account of it, Maxim Gorky's on July 4, 1896, when he saw the Lumiere Bros. films at the Nizhni-Novgorod fair in Russia. Gorky began his review with these extraordinary, and extraordinarily apt, words:

Last night I was in the Kingdom of Shadows.

If you only knew how strange it is to be there. It is a world without ...

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