Bergson’s theory was incredibly difficult to read, let alone understand and analyse what it was that he was getting across, so I was grateful to find this book, which contains essays discussing Bergson’s theories in a more accessible format. It was of great relief to find this; The task of thinking real time – durée […]

Andrew Davidhazy is an academic who works at RIT in the US. He has written a lot abou the mechanics of both strip photography used in finishing line imagery as well as slit scan images caused by slowly exposed slits panning the image plane. I have read his texts for technical information, although I don’t […]

This text explores vision, and how we see the world around us, very relevant to my studies, as my techniques disengage us with familiar ways of seeing for ones are “severed from a human observer.” (p1) These images do not refer to the way in which we, as humans see, what they refer to is […]

Krauss revisits Benjamin’s theory of the ‘optical unconscious’ and its importance to modernism, I feel this text is useful to my work as it deals with the eye of the camera and medium specificity. Benjamin’s work appears in most of the texts I have studied with reference to time and duration. Krauss looks at Benjamin […]

In Wells’ book I have looked at an essay by Peter Wollen, in which he describes film and photography as “fire and ice” (p76) the fire is constantly flickering and moving, while the ice is frozen still. Time dominates the way in which we view photographs, as we view camera’s as “devices for stopping time”. […]

“The most fundamental unit of time-measurement is in most societies the period of the earth’s rotation on its axis, which is normally known as the day.” (p1) However, the perception of time and its discussion in language varies across different societies, and the way in which we explain it may change. The most common way […]

Bergson’s text explores time, duration and our concept of free will. He is interested in our senses and sensations, and how we perceive these. Here is an outline of his thinking which I found effective; “Look closely at a sheet of paper lighted e.g. by four candles, and put out in succession one, two, three […]

Sutton discusses photographs as a “time-image” (pxi) which record the image of any given moment. This is in direct opposition to video, where time is displayed to us through the frame rate of the video. Immediately I can think of images which might not display any representation of time – even if time was a […]

Marking time: Photography, Film and Temporalities of the image Green looks at the work of Sugimoto, and how his work challenges photography’s “relationship to instantaneity and to the photographic image as the record of a brief and transitory moment in time.” (P9) In my work I wish to do the same. A photographic instant is […]