"receeding" by Marc Adamus
Bandon Oregon
The length of this exposure makes the photograph. It creates lines that would not otherwise be there, guiding your eyes to the rocks in the distance. It also saturates the colors of a sunset that was likely mediocre.
4-seasons-1-tree (anonymous)
1 shot trying to show how the world changes with time.
Istanbul, 1972 by "Ken Josephson" accession number: 2003:55.8 gelatin silver print 6.5x9"
This image captured time for me. Something about how there must have been movement at some time, but we can't tell if it is now or if it was a lot of motion over a long time really is compelling for me.
Jeff Wall: Afghanistan
Jeff wall really froze this soldier in an infinite life of urgency. A long exposure would have resolved the terror of the shot, but as they said on the radio: time stops sometimes and it seems like time has stopped for him because he is in such a terrifying moment.
Andreas Gursky
May Day V (2006)
I love Andreas Gursky. He captured the different rates of passing of time for 100 people all in one shot. Some are moving, some are not.
Abelardo Morell "Custom House"
The cars are not even visible because of the length of this exposure (approximately 8 hours)
Na and pa time by "wild particle" taken 8-12-2009
Is this a diptych? I think it is interesting to view time as they talked about in the radio show: something which is relative to the viewer. How interesting that he chose to make the old image a color image and the new them black and white!
Mark Tweedie "Harvest" taken March 1, 2009 pinhole
The boy disappears. Is it 2 shots or did he take such a long exposure that he could walk away without any track of his movement?
The photograph doesn't try to trick you, but they compare time with this quartic.
I'm posting this one because I want to tell you that I tricked you all! It looks like I'm biking on the treadmill and I am, but I have the treadmill running at 1 mph. Does it look like it? I didn't think so. This was somewhere from a 1-4 second exposure (I don't remember which because I took this shot several times).
Ideas for time photos:
ReplyDeleteI would have liked to have taken a 24-hour long exposure of the people listening to the 24-hour song as they listened.
I'm sure it's been done, but for the runners, it would be cool to take a shot of all of the starting blocks as they take off--how many of them take off at the exact same instant? Are they really "the gun?"
I was thinking about how the idea of time being different for each person is reflected in photography--1 object will appear to be immobile while another object can be a flash across the frame. It all depends on the perspective.
I was also thinking about how a photograph does the same thing they were doing with sound--it slows time down. If you look at a series of photographs quickly, it can seem like you're speeding up time (like a movie), but 1 photograph is the same as stopping time.
I would love to get a photograph that focuses on the threads on a baseball while it's in the air.
I really like the idea of taking such long exposures that the position of the sun changes. I think it would give a surreal feeling to some situations for the shadows to be in all directions.
Based on what i saw on the internet and the idea from Oliver Sacks, I think it is good to take several pictures of one event and compile them. That is how the human eye works. I would like to take more photographs that i can overlay with each other and show change without blur.