Photogenie - Photogenie (English spelling) French

Japanese: フォトジェニー - ふぉとじぇにー(英語表記)photogénie フランス語
Photogenie - Photogenie (English spelling) French

A film term. It was used in France in the 1920s to describe the characteristics of an image. The idea is that the true essence of a subject can be captured by passing it through a camera lens. In contrast to the contemporary Russian theory of montage, which emphasized the way multiple images were combined, this film emphasized the characteristics of the image itself. Etymologically, it comes from the word "photogenic" (from Greek, meaning "something made by light"), coined at the time of the birth of photography, which means something that looks good in a photograph, and has been translated into English and is still commonly used today. In 1920, film critic and director Louis Delluc gave his own definition in his book "Photogénie", which has since influenced many filmmakers, including Jean Epstein, and has been used to describe the characteristics of an image to this day.

[Kenji Iwamoto]

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Japanese:

映画用語。映像の特質を表すことばとして、1920年代のフランスで使われた。カメラのレンズを通すことによって、対象の本質がつかみ出されるという考え方で、同時代のロシアのモンタージュ論が複数の画面の結合の仕方を重視したのに比べ、画面そのものの特質を重視した。語源的には、写真誕生時の造語「フォトジェニック」photogénique(ギリシア語から「光がつくりだすもの」の意)に由来しており、これは写真うつりがよいという意味で、英語化もされて今日でも一般的に使われている。1920年に映画批評家・監督のルイ・デリュックが著書『フォトジェニー』のなかで独自の定義を与え、その後ジャン・エプスティンをはじめ多くの映画人に影響を及ぼし、今日に至るまで映像の特質を説明することばとして受け継がれてきている。

[岩本憲児]

[参照項目] | 映画理論 | 映像

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