Christian Metz Quotes

• Film is difficult to explain because it is easy to understand.

  Christian Metz

  Film, Easy, Difficult

  Christian Metz (2015). “Impersonal Enunciation, or the Place of Film”, p.11, Columbia University Press

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• Photography is the mirror, more faithful than any actual mirror, in which we witness at every age, our own aging. The actual mirror accompanies us through time, thoughtfully and treacherously; it changes with us, so that we appear not to change.

  Christian Metz

  Photography, Mirrors, Accompany Us

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• The importance of immobility and silence to photographic authority, the nonfilmic nature of this authority, leads me to some remarks on the relationship of photography with death. Immobility and silence are not only two objective aspects of death, they are also its main symbols, they figure it.

  Christian Metz

  Photography, Two, Silence

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• The person who has been photographed, not the total person, is dead, dead for having been seen.

  Christian Metz

  Persons, Has Beens

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• Photography is linked with death in many different ways. The most immediate and explicit is the social practice of keeping photographs in memory of loved beings who are no longer alive. But there is another real death which each of us undergoes every day, as each day we draw nearer to our own death. Even when the person photographed is still living, that moment when she or he was has forever vanished.

  Christian Metz

  Photography, Memories, Real

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• The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word.

  Christian Metz

  Order, People, Ordinary

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• Yo diría que el efecto de fuera de cuadro en fotografía resulta de un corte singular y definitivo que figura la castración y se cifra en el clic del obturador.

  Christian Metz

  Photography, Cutting, Figures

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