8. More Quotes

Photography, Cinema, Memory: The Crystal Image of Time. David Sutton:

p.36. 'So we have three elements that make up the time of our own identity: duration as the ongoing change, memory as our awareness of duration (the image of duration) and time, and the sense of past, present, and future from which our awareness is created.'

p.39. 'The photograph is often considered timeless, negating time or simply poor in comparison to cinema. Andre Bazin, for example, might have talked of cinema as "change mummified", but photography, for him, "embalms time" itself. Such an approach only considers time as chronology and does not consider the possibility of an image of time that is not based on a sensory-motor schema.'

p.39. 'This is developed by photography, to the extent that "timeless" does not necessarily mean "durationless." This forgotten time of the photograph is given shape once again by Deluze's philosophy of that time, ironically, relegated the photograph to playing a small part in a cinema's technology.'

p.49. 'Time seems to speed up or slow down, with different sensations of time ("other rhythms") competing with each other. The experience is familiar to us all, for instance, as we wait for a kettle to come to the boil, but perhaps more interesting in comparison to the similar experiences of space.' 

p.50. 'The photograph has a distinct contiguity with the time and the place at which it was taken, but its relationship with time is characterised by a powerful, transfixing immobility.'