"photography poisons the world" (All the World's A Screen addendum)

Here's an entry from The Biographical Dictionary of Film in which David Thomson rehearses some of the concerns about "movie" addressed in the new book A Sudden Flicker of Light : Fortuitously - but purely accidentally - timed for the tenacious Madonna's return to visibility with an alleged return-to-form album. But what if the form being returned to is of no concern or interest to you? Or even…