One Way | Easy to calculate but hard to invert Moving or permitting movement In one direction only |
S o far based on my experience, the time stream flows only one way. As it flows, all things change, although the alteration may occur at different rates. As I photograph, I frequently consider the mysteries of a non-spatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future.
“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.” - Edward Weston
The process of photography is of course temporal. We record radiant energy by carefully controlling shutter duration. The resultant images represent how something existed at a defined point in time. To me this interplay of slicing up time while stopping time with a photographic record is significant to consider.
