The ostensible subject of my photographs may be motion, but the subtext is time. A dancer's movements illustrate the passage of time, giving it a substance, materiality, and space. In my photographs, time is stopped, a split second becomes an eternity, and an ephemeral moment is solid as sculpture.
Interpretation
This quote highlights how photography captures the essence of time through motion, transforming fleeting moments into lasting images.
Lois Greenfield's quote illustrates the intricate relationship between motion and time in her photography. While her subjects may appear to be in action, the true focus is on how these movements convey the passage of time, thus giving it a tangible form. Through her lens, each fleeting moment is preserved, allowing the viewer to experience the eternal essence of what is often perceived as ephemeral. This exploration emphasizes the artistic skill in freezing time, turning transient movements into sculptures of memory.
In practice
In a photography exhibition discussing time and motion.
I could hardly sit through 'Frozen.' There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.
I hate being called poet/dramatist/translator/director. 'Poet' covers it all for me.
The respect for a musical score must come from the director... If the director has no power and has to surrender to budgetary constraints, this is where we have the problem.
There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.
Writing begins in the body, it is the music of the body, and even if the words have meaning, can sometimes have meaning, the music of the words is where the meanings begin....Writing as a lesser form of dance.
The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.
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