Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
With photography, you've captured a moment time - it's that moment only - and in painting, you play with it; you manipulate how time is presented. It's about fantasy and illusion and the creation of desire.
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.
The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.
Every photo you take communicates something about a moment in time - a brief slice of time of where you were, who you were with, and what you were doing.
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it.
The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it.