Intermediate Images

• Authors: Joachim Paech
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Starting from a definition of the word ‘picture’ as a real-world object that shows other objects on its surface as a representation of its image, I propose that the intermediality of pictures of all kinds is only possible through their images, after they have been separated from their material basis or foundation (for example, a painting in its physical reality can never be directly connected with a movie). In all technical reproductions of images, such as printing processes, an image is taken from a negative matrix in order to realize multiple prints of the same representation. The most effective model of this procedure is photography: photographic images can easily be connected with their media forms to produce other, more complex forms, such as magazines, printed books, or films. Intermediate images in the form of matrices - sometimes transparent (e.g. in the light beam of a film projection), sometimes opaque - are required to transform one pictorial media form into another. Finally, for the digital matrix-image, there is no longer any difference between the matrix and the image: the matrix has become its own image, which can be linked to all other media forms.

Keywords

EN

image; picture; matrix; technical reproductions of images; digital matrix image

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 31-49

Dates

published

2014-12-01

online

2015-03-17

Contributors

author

Joachim Paech

• Professor Emeritus, University of Konstanz (Germany)

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ausfm-2015-0002