What is Cinema - theontologyofthephotographicimage

Cinema is creation, an art form that tells a story. It’s an evolution that overtook painting, and it’s a form of dramatic expression. It’s also an illusion and a discovery that satisfies “once and for all and its very essence, our obsession with realism”. For example, in photography the image is captured, yet in painting the image is created. Photography “does not create eternity, as art does, it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption”. Photography can capture the photographers personality. “By the power of photography, the natural image of a world that we neither know nor can see, nature at last does more than imitate art: she imitates the artist”. The images in photography are real and factual.