Photography and Time - Capturing time / Visualizing time
Photography and captured time (the Punctum)
UMMA's 2019 exhibition Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs was filled with found, personal photographs that present viewers with touching, mysterious, and funny moments from thousands of people's lives.
While photographic technology is essentially a technological means to record the configuration of information encoded in light at a specific moment in space-time, photographers have also used the medium to visualize and explore other experiences of time. Let's discuss the ways the photographs below visually depict time.
Lesley Dill White Poem Figure (The Soul Has Moments of Escape) unique gelatin silver print on paper 19 15/16 in x 16 in (50.64 cm x 40.64 cm);28 3/16 in x 22 ¼ in (71.6 cm x 56.52 cm) Museum purchase made possible by the Jean Paul Slusser Memorial Fund
Phyllis Price Laura Foster Visits Tom Dooley 20th century black and white photograph | paper Gift from the Collection of David S. Rosen MD, MPH 2014/2.155