ABSTRACT

THERE WAS A TiME NOT SO long ago when the moving image was the big digital elephant in the corner of the photography room, never to be mentioned, and in some rooms it still is. Making films, shooting video, creating moving image, call it what you will–but don’t mention it. Keep it quiet and it might go away: after all we are photographers not filmmakers, aren’t we? We make still images–that’s what we get paid for doing–why should we consider doing anything else? It’s not our job. By now I’m sure, having got this far into this book, you will have realized that this is not–and has never been–my approach to the possibilities that the moving image offers the photographer. I’m more than happy to not only mention that elephant, but to bring him into the middle of the room and make him a center of conversation.