Theory of film : the redemption of physical reality (1960)

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Notes Unless otherwise specified, the translations in the text have been made by the author. CHAPTER 1 1. Langer, Philosophy in a New Key, p. 210. 2. Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas, p. 27. 3. Quoted from Gay-Lussac's speech in the French House of Peers, July 30, 1839, by Eder, History of Photography, p. 242. 4. Quoted from same speech, ibid. p. 242. 5. Quoted from Arago's speech in the French Chamber of Deputies, July 3, 1839, ibid. p. 235. 6. Ncwhall, The History of Photography . . . , pp. 17-18. 7. Newhall, "Photography and the Development of Kinetic Visualization," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 1944, vol. 7, p. 40. This paper is an important contribution to the history of instantaneous photography, which, says Mr. Ncwhall (p. 40), has not yet been written. 8. Ruskin, Praeterita, p. 341. 9. Quoted by Eder, op. cit. p. 341. 10. Newhall, The History of Photography . . . , p. 21. 11. For the references to Oliver Wendell Holmes and Darwin, see Ncwhall, "Photography and the Development of Kinetic Visualization," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 1944, vol. 7, pp. 41-2. 12. Newhall, The History of Photography . . . , p. 27. 13. Cf., for instance, Ueberweg/Heinze, Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie, vol. 5, p. 27. 14. Freund, La Photographie en France au dix-neuvieme siecle, pp. 102-7. For the Taine quote, see ibid. p. 103. In her excellent study Gisele Freund traces the social and ideological trends that had a bearing on the development of photography. Her book is not free from lapses into commonplace materialism, but this minor shortcoming is compensated for by a wealth of source material. 15. Ibid. pp. 49, 53-7. 16. Hauser, The Social History of Art, vol. II, p. 775. (Translated by Stanley Godman.) 17. Ibid. pp. 775, 779; Freund, op. cit. pp. 106-7. 18. Ncwhall, The History of Photography . . . , p. 71. 19. Ibid. p. 71. 20. Weston, "Seeing Photographically," The Complete Photographer, 1943, vol.9, issue 49:3200. 21. Newhall, op. cit. pp. 75-6; Freund, op. cit. p. 113. 22. Hauser, The Social History of Art, vol. II, p. 778. 313