Synopses & Reviews
Between Still and Moving Images traces the evolving concepts of movement, duration, and the moment grounded in the fusion of still and moving images. By examining the relationship between different forms of visual media, the essays in this collection demonstrate the impact of such visual fusion on artistic production across mediums. Of the multiple unexpected consequences in the shift to digital technologies, the sudden convergence of still and moving images is apparent in every domain, whether amateur or professional. The union of these visual states is primarily technical: the same machine may produce one and the other, a computer screen can display either one, and a single key is able to control the progression of images across the screen. It is as if still images have become a mere subcategory of animation, a transitional state wherein the transformation of the image is a click away.
About the Author
Laurent Guido is Professor of Film History and Aesthetics at the University of Lausanne.
Olivier Lugon is Professor of Art History at the University of Lausanne.
Table of Contents
Laurent Guido, Olivier Lugon
(University of Lausanne), Introduction
1. Founding Debates
Laurent Guido, Introduction. The Paradoxical Fits and Starts of the New "Optical Unconscious"; Tom Gunning (University of Chicago), The "Arrested "Instant: Between Stillness and Motion; Maria Tortajada (University of Lausanne), Photography/Cinema: Complementary Paradigms in the Early 20th Century; Mireille Berton (University of Lausanne), « A Subjectivity Torn between Stasis and Movement: Still Image and Moving Image in Medical Discourse at the Turn of the 20th Century; Samantha Lackey (University of Manchester), 'A Series of Fragments': Man Ray's Le Retour