Module 1 Lecture Content: Time, the Still Image + Photography

This module explores the relationship between time and the photographic image. While film, video and animation are all compiled of “still” images that are played fast enough in succession (usually) to produce the illusion of motion and the passage of time, completely still photographic images also convey ideas of time. This lecture content will focus on how artists, designers and other creative practitioners use photographic images, techniques and processes to communicate a sense of time, and also how photographs communicate a sense of time via their formal aesthetics (how they look), their format / production technology, and their subject matter. We will also discuss how some writers draw connections between time, space and photography, and how photographers work with time in their approach to taking photographs.

As you navigate the videos, artworks and information below, be sure to consider this idea of TIME. As the viewer, how do these visuals communicate a sense of time, either in terms of a specific time (minute, year, decade, century, eon, etc) and/or the passage of time (from seconds to minutes to hours to days to years).