The Innovators 1950-1960: Diving The Real

I found this article very interesting. It is very interesting to think of someone using the real as an artform. It seems crazy that today cinema has gone so far from the real and from Bazin's thoughts of what cinema should be. When reading this article I could not help to think of reality t.v. and how it is supposed to be "real" but is it? This article really made me re-think some things such as what is "real"? I feel as though Bazin really had something going for him when talking about what was real and how cinema should be real-life with a little help. I thoroughly enjoyed the part in the article that spoke about the camera and film and how a photograph is organic and seems to be a part of nature rather than mechanical. I found this to be a great article that really got me thinking.