Intermedia and Photography’s Expanded Field

Question 1: In Dick Higgins’ article on Intermedia, he claimed “The scene [of Milord] is not just characteristic of the painting world as an institution, however. It is absolutely natural to and inevitable in the concept of the pure medium, the painting or precious object of any kind.” (187) I can understand what he meant by the scene as a generalization of historical paintings, but what does he mean by “the concept of the pure medium”?

Question 2: In George Baker’s Photography’s Expanded Field, he applied Krauss’s Piaget model to modern photography and classified only those “images” that are “not-narrative” and “not-stasis” as modern photographs; others would be “photographic images”. How would Davenport’s “Stills from Weekend Campus” be classified? Is it “narrative” and “stasis”, or “stasis” and “non-stasis” since it is a still?