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Industry and Photography (1979)
Directed by Harun Farocki
Documentary · 44m
Farocki frequently chooses a single news photo as his pretext. In his film he explains convincingly that 'learning from images' is not so much a question of having power over the image or a consistent subject-position towards the image, which would allow the filmmaker access to complete knowledge. Instead he insists on pursuing photography's separation of reference and discourse, by proving this to be a separation of the subject as well as a separation within the subject itself. [...] - Thomas Elsaesser
Crew
- Director
- Harun Farocki
Details
- Original title
- Industrie und Fotografie
- Release date
- 1979-01-03
- Runtime
- 44m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany