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Photographer's Eye (Part 3)
Time - “The decisive moment, but the phrase has been misunderstood; the thing that happens at the decisive moment is not a dramatic climax but a visual one. The result is not a story but a picture”. ( https://moodle.umwestern.edu/pluginfile.php/622848/mod_resource/content/2/photographers-eye.pdf ) Harold Edgerton, Moving Skip Rope, 1952. Born in Nebraska in 1903. Became a professor in 1034 for electrical engineering at MIT. He used his development of the electric stroboscope to capture the invisible and make it visible. ( https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/exhibition/flashes-inspiration-work-harold-edgerton ) I use this photo as an example of time, for you can see that the photo as layered with other photos of this woman jump roping. This photo by Jeff Wall, is called A Sudden Gust of Wind [After Hokusai] 1993. This image is a recreation of Hokusai’s A High Wind in Yeijiri . The photo took five months to produce. Here is another example. While the photo itself may have been st...