LandArt

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/arnatt-self-burial-television-interference-project-t01747

Muybridge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Awo-P3t4Ho&t=105s

Notes from Motion studies: time, space & Eadweard Muybridge by Rebecca Solnit

The 1870s: In that decade the newly invented telephone and phonograph were added to the photography, telegraphy, and the railroad as instruments for "annihilating time and space".

Muybridge produced more successful high-speed photographs than anyone had before.

Muybridge's Zootrope, a small device invented in 1834 that makes a series of spinning images seen through a slot appear to be a single image in motion.



Motion pictures changed the relationship to time further, they made it possible to step in the same river twice, to see not just images but events that had happened in other times and other places, almost to stop living where you were and start living in other places or other times. Movies became a huge industry, became how people envisioned themselves and the world, defined what they desired and what was desirable. Andrej Tarkovsky thought that time itself, "time lost or spent or not yet had," was what people desired and fed upon in the films that became a collective dream world inhabited by multitudes. It all began with photographs of a horse in California.

The transcontinental railroad changed the scale of the earth itself, diminishing the time it took to circumnavigate the globe. With the completion of the railroad those three thousand miles of desert, mountain, prairie, and forest could be comfortably crossed in under a week.

Ulysses S. Grant remembered riding on one of the early railroads in Pennsylvania in 1839 with the same amazement that most early travellers recorded: "We travelled at least eighteen miles an hour when at full speed, and made the whole distance averaging as much as twelve miles an hour. This seemed like annihilating space. "If distance was measured in time, then the world had suddenly begun to shrink, places connected by railroads were, for all practical purposes, several times closer to each other than they ever had been.

People were being drawn out of their small familiar worlds into one more free, less personal, in which the associations that once attached to each person, place, and objects came undone.

Grant and Emerson were sounding variations on one of the stock phrases of the day, "the annihilation of time and space," which was applied over and over to railroads and other new technologies.

The third great transformer of time: photography. For if railroads and photography had one thing in common, it is that they bought the world closer for those who rode or looked. (p. 14).

Research point - examples of photography documenting a journey through time and/or space

Paul Graham's A1 project
http://www.paulgrahamarchive.com/a1.html#a

Did I expect more? There are few photographs accessible on his website. Somehow the photographs are empty, calm, without emotions but very close to my inner feeling that the world is still same at any time and space. Without knowing the place I hardly can say from which part of the world the picture is.

Stephen Shore's American Surfaces
http://stephenshore.net/photographs/seven/index.php?page=1&menu=photographs

The photographs are like windows into the world at a time when they were taken. I especially like the photographs of people who are looking into the camera. It is like they say "hey we were here and we looked like". All photographs have a documentary value of its Era. Looking at them is pleasant. To study what food was served. How people looked like fashion, the design of things, cars.

Alec Soth's Sleeping by the Mississippi 
https://pro.magnumphotos.com/Package/2K7O3RJZOEDT#/SearchResult&ALID=2K7O3RJZOEDT&VBID=2K1HZSJ3XM164&POPUPIID=2K7O3RJZYWPC&POPUPPN=34

Extraordinary photographs, what more to say. This research reveals me that people looking straight into camera have their own state of a feeling which we put into them. It looks like it is similar to the Mosjukhin experiment in the film medium.




Robert Frank's The Americans
I love to watch the faces. It is an unusual state of feeling. Where all the people come from. Are they happy? Where they are rushing? Amazing portraits here with astonishing pictures of individuals.




Other journey documentaries:

Ruddy Roy
http://ruddyroye.com/galleries/my-american-sojourn--a-southern-journey/Radcliffe_Roye_35_2/

In this documentary are people and their reflections in photographs. The photographs are amazing but I am missing the space, the architecture, things, objects, food. It looks like it incomplete comparing it to the previous documentary.

Project 2 Exercise 3

I was always captivated by old family's photographs. As a child, I was mainly focused on the aspect how we looked like and where the photo was taken.  Today, I am really glad that I can see the people who passed away in the photograph. It is a form of memory, precise memory I would say because the image in our mind is not so precise. Maybe "precise" is not the right word, is not physically present, just a thought, an individual image which we can not print on paper. The photograph we can show to anybody else, we can share the memories, one of the photography's great feature.

The digital revolution killed the printed photography. I let to print my photographs in 2010. Now I have a digital photo book in Adobe's Lightroom. The searching box of photos is amazing, you can put the pictures next to each other, and you can let your mind to tell a story, recall memories. It is great to have a digital store on our computers, but the real present and freedom of a photograph hold in hand have its own miracle which a screen of our PC has not.

Daniel Meadow : TALKING PICTURES

https://vimeo.com/user15481435

It is amazing when I am looking at old pictures. What a shame my parents were not interested in a photobook of our lives. Anyway, Meadow's projects are amazing. The story told by still images is really inspiring.

Exercise 2 Project2

Photography is a framed frozen moment of a space in a time. The perspective of content is influenced by a lens which was used to shoot the image and thus the dimension of space as same as we feel. The time - longer shutter can reveal a movement by the blurriness of objects, but it is relative if we take in account early photographs where exposition time was very longer, and the pictures of streets looked empty.  I see the unique feature in a camera that everyone can use it to record the world around us and catch a time.

Photography is the most realistic portray of space and is similar to our images in mind. As I wrote that sentence is it really true? Last week I visited a place where I was in my childhood, space, buildings and roads were situated in different composition to my images which I have been holding for 33 years. It was shocking, I could not believe it is the same space, but it was. The perception of a child was somehow different.

What another creative art form can deal with time if we do not talk about film strip? I think the medium could be games, virtual reality (space), programmed to show the past or future in real or imaginary space. Do we really be able to recognise we are in virtual reality?

Exercise 1 Project 2

Derek Trillo's Passing Place: two blurriness figures are going to each other on stairs. Of course, the feeling is movement, and it looks great. 

Harold Edgerton's Bullet and Apple: for me a technical photo to capture an action which human being eye is not able to see.

Harold Edgerton's Multiflash tennis serve: an image of a movement nearly step by step in one picture. We can see what actions are there when a tennis player serves.

Lartigue's cousin: it is a strange image. A Woman above stairs. Frozen image where we know that the woman was captured when jumping on the stairs.

Research point "dealing with the flood"

I do not use social media very often. Anyway, the photographs which I put on the Instagram was about the current state in which I was. Relax, snowy day, something which is interesting. Especially Instagram is a medium which I only tested. Last weekend I did the Camera Obscura, and it was something I wanted to share within my small circle of friends and my company, only to show the result to the world.

The purpose of the photographs is to describe something and to express something. At this moment I am discovering what the photograph the medium is for me. I have been shooting pictures since my childhood, but few of them was saved, digitally I have 52000 pictures, and mostly they are the record of my beloved, maybe 3% maybe less could be considered "artistic". I am thinking to build my www time life history.

There are better and worse pictures seeing them in "arty" point of view. Anyway, we can see the world as it is through our cameras from any place around the world. There always be a quality of the photograph and "artistic tools" will help hem to be pretty close to calling them the artistic photo.

I am not a daily contributor, but I like to search my photographs which are old to see the objects within and comparing then to present. It is mystery thing.

Blurriness in Photography

As I was searching Cristina de Middell's web, I found this photograph, which stole my awareness, from an expedition to Jan Mayen island.

The blurriness of the waves in the foreground gives the shot a kind of dramatisation, and we know the source of the black smoke is from a boat. Further, the scratches are an amazing part of the picture, somehow they give a severe feeling. The dynamic feature of the picture is just fantastic.