1. Assessment of Bazin
... context surrounding that moment in time cannot be determined however, the very fact that the object existed in time and space cannot be denied in a photograph. "Photography affects us like a phenomenon in nature, like a flower or a snowflake whose vegetable or earthly origins are an inseparable part of their beauty"9. Nature in photography is in itself distinguished as nature, untainted by man ... and man's perspective of nature. Bazin places the power that comes from photography as a result of the absence of man. Photography frees objects from "the conditions of time and space"10, by em...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate