Time

One of the concepts brought into question with the introduction of photography is TIME.

The photograph can be a frozen moment of time, allowing us to see what we are not able to see otherwise. It can be an extended period of time as well, showing us several moments (or hours or days or longer) at once. A photograph can also be a record of a period of time, a representation of the zeitgeist or spirit of the time.

Your assignment is to photograph TIME. Think about how you can make this abstract concept concrete. Please be creative (no photos of clocks).

Some examples from three photographers of TIME ...

The Horse in Motion
Eadweard Muybridge, 1878

Greyhounds running
Eadweard Muybridge, c. 1881

Cat running
Eadweard Muybridge, c. 1887

Plate 173
Eadweard Muybridge

Plate 14
Eadweard Muybridge

High-Speed Digital Camera (2000 fps)

Plate 208
Eadweard Muybridge

Plate 47
Eadweard Muybridge

TIME

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Cockatoo flying
Eadweard Muybridge, 1887

Eadweard Muybridge

Etienne-Jules Marey

Untitled (Man Beginning to Run)
Etienne-Jules Marey, 1890–1900

Flight of the pelican
Etienne-Jules Marey, c. 1882

Study of movement
Etienne-Jules Marey

Human locomotion
Etienne-Jules Marey, 1883

Flight of seagulls
Etienne-Jules Marey, 1886

Tilted plane, 65-degree angle, third version of the smoke machine equipped with 21 channels
Etienne-Jules Marey, 1899

Triangular prism presenting one of its bases to the air stream, fourth and lastversion of the smoke machine equipped with 57 channels
Etienne-Jules Marey, 1901

Triangular prism presenting one of its angles to the air stream, fourth and last version of the smoke machine equipped with 57 channels
Etienne-Jules Marey, 1901