ABSTRACT
Photographic realism, then, is mistaken. Photographic and cinematic images cannot be presumed to be on a par with telescopes as devices through which the sight of remote things is enhanced. Andre Bazin claims that the photographic image—and by extension the cinematic image—re-presents the objects, persons and events that give rise to it. This chapter identifies four necessary conditions for the phenomena as moving images. X is a moving image: only if x possesses a disembodied viewpoint; only if it is reasonable to anticipate movement in x when one knows what x is; only if performance tokens of x are generated by templates; and only if performance tokens of x are not artworks. Moreover, these conditions provides us with the conceptual resources to discriminate the moving image from neighboring artforms like painting and theater. Photographic and cinematic images cannot be presumed to be on a par with telescopes as devices through which the sight of remote things is enhanced.
