A New Discourse about Moving Photography as a Static Visual Narration

Entering the digital age, photography has developed very rapidly. One of which underwent major change was its form. The digital age offers a new form that is detached of the material aspects. Photography is no longer a physical object but an image as a data code that can be represented in various forms both printed or non-printed. The loss of physical form presents new possibilities in photography, for example, more easily manipulated, reproduced, and transmitted. Another thing is that non-physical photography allows loading several frames in one image. A new problem arises, which is blurring the boundaries between photography and cinema. This paper,through literature studies tries to explore the extent to which photographic works have developed today so as to look like cinema, and look for new boundaries between photography and cinema. So far, photographic works that have active motion elements (changing frame) are cinemagraph and boomerang. Both of them look like cinema, but using visual narrative categorization, it can be clearly traced that they are included in the photography category which is has static visual narrative characteristics. This paper finally coined the new term moving photography to distinguish it from conventional photography which had already existed and is even still common today.