Week 10 - Time and the Image - Research

In this brief we were asked to produce a A3 print of either an analogue or a digital process that conveys time within an image. Within this we have a choice of technically showing the process of time or conceptually. We Also have to explore narrative either a non linear narrative or linear narrative.

In this post I have decided to show some of my research to concluded how I reached my final idea for this brief, firstly I look at Hiroshi Sugimoto is considered the master of showing time within an image he series entitled 'Theatres' involved photographing old American movie palaces and drive-ins with a folding 4x5 camera and tripod, opening his camera shutter and exposing the film for the duration of the entire feature-length movie. In the image below he has managed to capture a very active air space along with the white out screen of the long expoure of the movie screen.

 Another Photographer famed for this use of long exposures is Alexey Titarenko he paints a bitter picture of  Russia, where people live in a world of unrealized hopes and where time seems to have stopped.