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Apr 18, 2018 · Bazin ascribes this wish to what he calls the “mummy complex” – an innate human need to halt the ceaseless flow of time by embalming it in an image. But it wasn’t until the development of photography in the nineteenth century that this appetite for the real could be fully satisfied.
ANDRE BAZIN the hold of life. It was natural, therefore, to keep up appearances in the face of the reality of death by preserving flesh and bone. The first Egyptian statue, then, was a mummy, tanned and petrified in sodium. But pyramids and labyrinthine corridors offered no certain guar-antee against ultimate pillage. Other forms of insurance ...
Bazin argues, mankind has dreamed of being able to see the surface of the world faithfully copied in art (see “The Ontology of the Photographic Image,” 1945). He ascribes this wish to what he calls the “mummy complex”—an innate human need to halt the ceaseless flow of time by embalming it in an image.
the essay, like an axiom of axioms. Later in the essay, Bazin claims that the inven-tion of photography was “the most important event in the history of the plastic arts,” which only makes sense in light of the potential “mummy complex” introduced in at the beginning. Bazin elaborates his entire argument within the state of virtual being
Apr 4, 2017 · The hypostasized counterpart of the ‘mummy complex’ of Ancient Egypt, which Bazin had argued lay behind the filmic impulse in general, turns into the literal mummification of Lenin, which prepares the ground for the consecration of History in Stalin; and the asymptote principle of film history, by which film technology and style approach ...
- Feroz Hassan
- 2017
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Sep 9, 2023 · He explains that humans have a “mummy complex,” which compels us to capture our physical vessels in images. The complexity of images allows us to preserve the body or halt time, and in a sense, conquer death by preventing the collapse of our spiritual vessels.
