Blow-Up was Antonioni's first major film made outside of Italy, and his first to reach a wide international audience; with its upbeat tempo, it delighted audiences and allowed Antonioni's critics entrée into his vision. Blow-Up can be seen as a classic film questioning--in an appropriate medium--the relationship between image and reality, between representation and experience, in a world in which the image has become primary. David Hemmings plays Thomas, a fashion photographer in swinging London who happens to photograph a woman (Vanessa Redgrave) in a park and later comes to believe that he has actually photographed the scene of a murder. But in order for his eyes to see what the camera has already seen--or has it?--he must blow up the photo into ever-larger versions. Through the photograph, Thomas is lured out of his life of sterile pleasures and unquestioning acceptance of mediated reality into a search for "the truth." But the truth proceeds to fragment before his, and our, eyes.