Jean Epstein (1897–1953) was a prominent French avant-garde artist who took over the development of the concept of photogenia from the prematurely deceased Louis Delluc. In this edition, it is as if the reader were presented with two different Epsteins: in Bonjour, Cinema (1921), the young, cocky, and cheerful surrealist, enamored with the new art of cinema; and the later, mature philosopher, intensely exploring the space taken by cinema in the psyche and predicting various developments of the medium, in Cinematograph of the Devil (1947). Upon comparing both texts, the reader will appreciate the statement by film scholar Pierre Leprohon (1903–1993): Epstein, a rare genius, should have worked in the realm of pure abstraction, but was «caught in the gears of cinema.»
ISBN: 978-5-9248-0225-1 Number of pages: 160 Translation: Дмитрий Савосин Design: Дмитрий Гусев, Миша Филатов Type of cover: Soft cover Format: 125×185 mm