Harold Edgerton

I stumbled across some great examples of motion photography when I was looking through a few books. Harold Edgerton has produced some truly amazing shots capturing motion. From the series that shows bullets piercing through different objects to the the series showing people in motion. His book is fittingly called 'Stopping Time' which is pretty apt for this project. I have been thinking how I would be able to achieve something similar to show the different stages of time my paragraph talks about

Photographs courtesy of edgerton-digital-collections.org

Eadweard Muybridge

As I have begun to look at different examples of photography I remembered Eadweard Muybridge who I researched whilst in college and I remembered his interesting study on motion and capturing motion. He underwent the study shown above that proved that all four hooves left the ground whilst a horse gallops and experimented with many different animals and the human form to show movement over a variety of different motions. I like the way the movements are shown over a series of pictures and think it shows past, present and future really well.

Michel Szulc Krzyzanowski

As i have been reading and rereading my passage over and over again something that has stuck out is this sense of past, present and future and the idea that they exist independently through time so i have looked at Michel Szulc Krzyzanowski and his depiction of space, time and motion, and really like the way he has combined different photographs to give a new dynamic to the overall picture, which i think could work really well when looking at past, present and future.

I also love this idea of a series of photographs that tell a story or show a particular movement. The series below in itself shows before, during and after so would be good to show something similar or have each photography in the same style.

Fran Herbello

I have begun looking through photography magazines and books to try and get some inspiration and i came across the work of Fran Herbello. What i really love about these photos is the surreal nature they come together and how they look awkward but there's something that feels really natural about them. I love the simplicity in the idea aswell They look extremely realistic and gives you that huge shock factor as you see the pull in the skin!

Photographic Narrative (Einstein's Dreams)

As part of a new brief we have each been given a chapter from 'Einstein's Dreams' which is not so much a novel but a collection of dreams he had questioning and exploring the concept of time. Each chapter looks at time from a different angle and we have been asked to breakdown our chapter and create 8 photographs that capture the essence of his dream. My passage looks at the effect time has on the present and that past and future is only relevant to time. It also talks about actions make in the present as impulse and talks about them holding no consequence on the future. etc etc. confusing stuff. I'm not the biggest fan of photography work so I can see myself struggling with this brief. I do however find my paragraph very interesting and a few of the other ones I have read. As soon as i was given this brief i instantly thought of Salvador Dali's 'The Persistence of Memory' which was again based on a dream and challenges the concept of time with the melting clocks that are thought to symbolise the irrelevance of time.