How Photography Changed Time: Part 1

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How Photography Changed Time: Part 1

Photography has altered our modern sense of time

For the last three months I have been writing a blog about time, entitled Deconstructing Time, an exploration of the human experience of time.

http://deconstructingtime.blogspot.com

And during my research and writing, I realized that photography had completely changed our sense of time, our sense of the past, our relation to time itself.

So my latest blog-article is called: How Photography Changed Time: Part 1

I invite readers here at PIXIQ to read my thoughts about the connection between our modern sense of time and the invention of photography. In addition I will write and illustrate at least one more article about the unique power photography has when it comes to time.

I believe that photography is so important, that future historians will call the time before photography, pre-photographic, just as the time before written history is called prehistoric.

At the end of my blog-article I display 18 photos of war from the US Civil War, through World War II, to the war in Vietnam. This series shows both the evolution of photography in documenting war, the incredible detail that a photograph is capable of recording, and also the unparalleled power photography has to make the past real, to make us feel the anguish and sorrow during the Blitz in London or the joy when the war was over.

Why am I writing about time, you might ask? Well, I believe that photography is the art form best suited to capture time. I take long exposure photographs, for example, to record a sense of time. I believe that thinking about time and gaining a better understanding of time will make me a better photographer.

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For those who want to delve further in the subject of time

here are the links to the other fourteen articles

I have written on this blog.

Introduction

http://deconstructingtime.blogspot.com/2012/12/introduction.html

Explorations Into The Human Experience Of Time

http://deconstructingtime.blogspot.com/2012/12/de-constructing-time-expl...

New Years 2013

http://deconstructingtime.blogspot.com/2013/01/new-years-2013.html

The Past Isn't Dead

http://deconstructingtime.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-past-isnt-dead.html

The Genius of Cavemen

http://deconstructingtime.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-genius-of-cavemen.html

The Ancient Manipulation of Time: Part 1

http://deconstructingtime.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-ancient-manipulation-...

The Ancient Manipulation of Time: Part 2

http://deconstructingtime.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-ancient-manipulation-...

Our Most Important Sense: A Sense of Time

http://deconstructingtime.blogspot.com/2013/01/our-most-important-sense-...

Virtual Human Meta-Time

http://deconstructingtime.blogspot.com/2013/01/virtual-human-meta-time.html

Basic Facts About Time

http://deconstructingtime.blogspot.com/2013/02/basic-facts-about-time.html

The Dance of the *Now Moment*

http://deconstructingtime.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-dance-of-now-moment.html

Time & The Human Sense Duration

http://deconstructingtime.blogspot.com/2013/03/time-human-sense-duration...

Continuity & Time

http://deconstructingtime.blogspot.com/2013/04/continuity-time.html

A Revolution In Time

http://deconstructingtime.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-revolution-in-time.html

NOTE: See a list of my other articles here at PIXIQ. www.pixiq.com/contributors/rick-doble

For more about my approach to photography see my book: Experimental Digital Photography.

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