Unit 7 - Time

Eadweard Muybridge was an English photographer. He was most known for his pioneering work in the photographic studies of motion and the early works of motion picture projection.  When Muybridge was 20, he emigrated to America. Later he planned a return trip back to Europe in 1860. Whilst Muybridge was in America he suffered serious head injuries in a crash in Texas. Muybridge spent the next few years recovering back in England, this is where he took up professional photography. He later returned to San Fransisco in 1867 and in 1868 his photographs of Yosemite Valley made him world famous.  Today, Muybridge is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion in 1877. He achieved this by using numerous camera to capture motion in stop-motion. Muybridge used a zoopraxiscope to project motion pictures on flexible film used in cinematography. In the 1880's, Muybridge produced over 100,000 photograph...

Harold Eugene Edgerton who is also known as 'Papa Flash'. He was an electrical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He is hugely credited for the transformation of the stroboscope from an unknown laboratory instrument, into a common device. Edgerton was also involved in the development of deep-sea photography and sonar. Edgerton was born in Nebraska on April 6 1903. Edgerton also grew up in Nebraska and later spent some of his childhood in Washington D.C.  Edgerton credited Charles Stark Draper for inspiring him to photographing everyday objects with the use of an electronic flash. In 1937, Edgerton started what was a lifelong association with a photographer named Gjon Milii. He used numerous studio electronic flash units, to create stunningly striking photographs. When taking multi flash photographs, the strobe lighting was able to flash up to 120 times a second. Edgerton was the p...

Throughout the project I have been inspired by many photographers which has led me to experiment with different processes and methods to produce multiple works based on the the photographers that have been the sources of my inspiration in order to solve a problem in time. The most successful pieces of work that I have produced have to be the lumen pinhole print and my narrative. My narrative was created on Premier Pro to show a story of a snowman being built over a length of time. Using this process to create my narrative, it has given me some ideas that I may apply and really utilize in my future projects. I created my lumen pinhole print with a drinks can which had a acupuncture sizes hole in it to expose the light sensitive paper over the course of three months. I really enjoyed this process and I think that I will try this again sometime in the future as a personal project. This was a rather lengthy process to set up and the results are uncertain but this uncertainty has made me w...

Sam Taylor-Johnson was born in Croydon on March 4 1967. She first  started working in photography, video and film in the early 1990's.  One collaboration that she was part of was with a photographer named Henry Bond. It featured Bond and Taylor Johnson reprising the roles of Yoko Ono and John Lennon in a imitation photo-portrait produced by photographer Annie Leibovitz a few hours before Lennon was assassinated in 1980.  In 1994, Taylor-Johnson won the Illy Cafe Prize for the most promising young artist at the 1997 Venice Biennale.  In 2000, Taylor-Johnson produced a wraparound photomural of the department store Selfridges in London. 2014 saw a new photographic exhibition by Taylor-Johnson at The Saatchi Gallery.                                                           ...

For my experiential short sequence of decay I am going to attempt to create a GIF of birthday candles melting down. Below are a few examples of decay GIF's that have sourced my inspiration. https://youtu.be/pXPP8eUlEtk I like this example because it is smooth as the photographer has possibly shot this with an interval of about two photographs a day with a fast shutter speed and has used 24fps.   https://youtu.be/c0En-_BVbGc I like this example because I think that the way that the fruit and vegetable seem like they are melting is very effective and that makes it a successful sequence of decay. Below is my experimental sequence of decay that I shot of birthday candles melting. This sequence did not turn out so great because its extremely overexposed from the candle lights which means that I also must have had it set on a slow shutter speed. What I have learnt from this experiment is that I should take a light reading or do a tester shoot to make sure tha...

Koyaanisqatsi meaning life out of balance is an experimental American film which was produced in 1982. Koyaanisqatsi was filmed between the years of 1975-1882. The film tries to show an apocalyptic vision of collision of two completely different worlds. urban life and technology versus the environment.  The film mainly consists of time-lapse and slow motion footage of natural landscapes and cities across the United States. The tone of the film is set by the juxtaposition of photographs and music. I think that the most interesting scene of the film is when it shows a time-lapse of a crowd moving and then disappearing all of a sudden, it make sit satisfying to watch. Its almost like watching ants swarming in a nest. This scene can be seen below. 

Justin Quinelle is a UK based pinhole photographer. He produces extremely long exposure pinhole images, this is also known as solargraphy. This can take up to as long as a year just to get one exposed image and they most often track the path of the sun and its movements through time and the seasons. It's a very simple concept, all that is needed is a hollow object in which a hole can be made. May it be a large dustbin, a film pot or even a drinks can.   http://justinquinnell.wixsite.com/pinholegallery?lightbox=image_17nn Justin Quinelle was a head of the photography department at a school in Bristol. His students used to say to him that they could not afford cameras yet they could afford several cans of coke a day. It was then that he thought of the idea of using a drinks can as a pinhole camera.  What really fascinates Quinelle the most about pinhole photography is that there is no viewfinder and the pre-visualising of the elements of time. W...