{"product_id":"the-cinematic-whitechapel-documents-of-contemporary-art","title":"The Cinematic (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)","description":"Key writings by artists and theorists chart the shifting relationship between film and photography and how the rise of cinema forced photography to make a virtue of its stillness. The cinematic has been a springboard for the work of many influential artists  including Victor Burgin  Philip-Lorca diCorcia  Stan Douglas  Nan Goldin  Douglas Gordon  Cindy Sherman  and Jeff Wall  among others. Much recent cinema  meanwhile  is rich with references to contemporary photography. Video art has taken a photographic turn into pensive slowness; photography now has at its disposal the budgets and scale of cinema. This addition to Whitechapels Documents of Contemporary Art series surveys the rich history of creative interaction between the moving and the still photograph  tracing their ever-changing relationship since early modernism. Still photographycinemas ghostly parentwas eclipsed by the medium of film  but also set free. The rise of cinema obliged photography to make a virtue of its own stillness. Film  on the other hand  envied the simplicity  the lightness  and the precision of photography. Russian Constructivist filmmakers considered avant-garde cinema as a sequence of graphic \"shots\"; their Bauhaus  Constructivist and Futurist photographer contemporaries assembled photographs into a form of cinema on the page. In response to the rise of popular cinema  Henri Cartier-Bresson exalted the \"decisive moment\" of the still photograph. In the 1950s  reportage photography began to explore the possibility of snatching filmic fragments. Since the 1960s  conceptual and postconceptual artists have explored the narrative enigmas of the found film still. The Cinematic assembles key writings by artists and theorists from the 1920s onincluding Lszl Moholy-Nagy  Pier Paolo Pasolini  Victor Burgin  Jeff Wall  and Catherine Daviddocumenting the photography-film dialogue that has enriched both media.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44624557080629,"sku":"ByrdShop_0262532883","price":88.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0262532883_24a1021f-04c6-43a8-989e-2754c3d23744.jpg?v=1764944312","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-cinematic-whitechapel-documents-of-contemporary-art","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}