Due Dates:
Preliminary Critique: 10/26
Project Due: Prints, files, critique: 11/2
Photography has historically been associated with notions of time. For example, the famous street photographer Cartier-Bresson insisted on the importance of capturing a "decisive moment", when the photographer waits for all the right activities to come together simultaneously in the frame to capture a transcendent image.
Harold Edgerton took this notion to the extreme, advancing high speed stroboscopic photographic techniques to freeze extremely fast events.
Photographs are also thought to represent time in a historical sense. For instance, there are many examples that capture common feelings or associations of an era.
To turn this upside down, the camera also has the ability to capture extended moments of time, compressing large spans within a single frame. A single image may represent multiple moments, or even eras. It can get very interesting, quickly. This is facilitated even more with digital tools. The following photographers have all explored, through various means, how to create images that strongly engage ideas of time. Links to their work are in the list to the right.
Shimon Attie
Ursula Sokolowski
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Michael Wesely
Brian Moss
Barry Frydlander
Atta Kim
Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe
Kerry Skarbakka
Ambler Hutchinson
For this project, create compelling work that meaningfully works with the passage of some kind of time. (historical time, linear time, circular time, dream time). Create/coordinate characters, places, events, actual or fictitious, as you require. Use any means possible, in-camera or computer assisted, to accomplish your goals.
