1st Response

The Ontology of the Photographic Image defines what photography has come to mean to us throughout time. It is a way to capture a moment but it can also be a way to show a replicated and sustained subject. In other words, "the image helps to preserve" the subject "from a second spiritual death" meaning, not to be forgotten. Photographs can help us build a remembrance, remind us of important people or past events. For example the use of mummification to describe photography was a way to explain the idea of preservation. In turn Cinema, being a relative or evolution of photography, is a medium that "mummifies change" as well.

--Kristin L.