Wednesday, October 8, 2008

"Without events, there is no time." - Wynn Bullock

After doing extensive research on Wynn Bullock and his approach to photography, I have discovered that events occur during a certain amount of time.  Time and space have a deep and big impact on photography in the eyes of Wynn Bullock.  Photographs are symbols that evoke events and interactions of space and time.  A certain event happens once in a lifetime and as a photographer, he/she has the chance to use the camera and capture that moment in time.  Bullock believed that there was to a photograph than just its surface reflection.  He believed that a photograph reveals the interaction between time and space defined by light and subject matter. For example, a figure interacts with a piece of nature.  As a photographer myself, when looking through the camera's viewfinder, I am recording an event at a certain time.  Each time I push the shutter, it is recording everything that is being photographed.  I am also experiencing the space that is surrounding me as I photograph.  I would like to conclude with an interesting quote by Bullock in which he talks about experiencing time and space:  "There is nothing mysterious about space-time.  Every speck of matter, every idea, is a space-time event.  We cannot experience anything or conceive of anything that exists outside of space-time.  Just as experience precedes all awareness and creative expression, the visual language of our photographs should ever more strongly express the fourth dimensional structure of the real world." - Wynn Bullock 


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