Photographing film

Schapiron and the way that we normally encounter a strip of film stills

In a resent visit to Stockholm I went to Fotografiska museet. I saw the work of Steve Schapiron, he was the American photographer who worked alongside the moving image camera men at Taxi-driver and Godfather sets to take stills of the action. These stills are now celebrated within the moving image world as a still image photographer Schapiron could capture the atmosphere and the action from a different angle then the moving image camera, he could hover just outside the mise on scene to capture an in-between of reality and stage. Also possible because of the notion of photography as an honest and truth-telling medium in contrast to film as a fictional one.