The Ubiquity of Cinema Photography was around long before cinema, but in an ever-increasingly technologically complex and multimedia world it is nearly impossible to work in one medium, say photography, and not be influenced in some way by every other medium regardless of its relation or recency, like cinema. Roland Barthes said that a movie only becomes truly filmic when its motion was completely frozen (Campany, p.135, 2010). Barthes’ position on the idea of filmic, and how cinema only becomes filmic when it is effectively turned into a photograph is interesting and could easily fill a whole separate writing. His view does, however, highlight the importance of the link between these two media. If one were to
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