Abstract: Time has always held a stake in photography. Incapable of depicting the actual experience of time, the photograph appears able to suggest more than it can show, and discourse focused on the relationship between photography and time is predominantly characterized by enquiries in regard to instantaneity, temporality, and indexicality. The work of Roland Barthes, perhaps more than any other writer on photography, has exercised a profound influence on interpretations of time in the photographic medium. The writings of Barthes, André Bazin, and Susan Sontag, to varying degrees, have swayed ensuing theoretical discussions examining temporality in the photographic medium to carry on with past tense metaphors and analogies of mortality. Yet, Peter Wollen points out that by avoiding the notion of tense and using the semantic category of “aspect” instead, there is a different way to consider the relationship between time and photography.
Publication Year: 2019
Publication Date: 2019-12-30
Language: en
Type: other
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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