The Albertina is turning the spotlight on this hybrid genre for the first time in a comprehensive exhibition of 130 film stills taken between 1910 and the 1970s
The Albertina is turning the spotlight on this hybrid genre for the first time in a comprehensive exhibition of 130 film stills taken between 1910 and the 1970s
Film stills represent both visual traces of film and their own type of photographic image. They are taken on set during filming by specially commissioned photographers in accordance with a complicated and elaborate procedure, re-staging film scenes specifically for the still camera, transforming film from a moving to a static medium.
Klaus Albrecht Schröder is director of the Albertina museum, Vienna, Austria.
Walter Moser is Director in charge of the collection of present-day photography at museum Albertina, Vienna, Austria.
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