{"id":2548,"date":"2020-04-06T20:57:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T20:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2020-04-06T20:57:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T20:57:26","slug":"the-element-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/2020\/04\/06\/the-element-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Element of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2549\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/2020\/04\/06\/the-element-of-time\/selection-1-12-2\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/06204419\/selection-1-12.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1875,2500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone XS&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1585477864&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.25&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"selection-1-12\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/06204419\/selection-1-12-225x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/06204419\/selection-1-12-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2549\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/06204419\/selection-1-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1875\" height=\"2500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/06204419\/selection-1-12.jpg 1875w, https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/06204419\/selection-1-12-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/06204419\/selection-1-12-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/06204419\/selection-1-12-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/06204419\/selection-1-12-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.destroyphotography.com\/destroyphotography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/06204419\/selection-1-12-920x1227.jpg 920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1875px) 100vw, 1875px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Marey\u2019s Chronograms.<\/b> Dr. Nathan passed the illustrations across his desk to Margaret Travis. \u2018Marey\u2019s Chronograms are multiple exposure photographs in which the element oftime is visible -the walking human figure, for example, is represented as a series of dune-like lumps. \u2018 Dr. Nathan accepted a cigarette from Catherine Austin, who had sauntered forward from the incubator at the rear of the office.Ignoring herequizzical eye, he continued.\u2018Your husband brilliant feat was to reverse the process. Using a series of the most commonplace objects &#8211; this office,let ussay, a panorama ofNew York Skyscrapers, the naked body of awoman, the face of a catatonic patient &#8211; he treated them as ifthey already were chromograms and<i>extracted <\/i>the element oftime. \u2018 Dr. Nathan lit his cigarette with care. \u2018The results were extraordinary. A very different world was revealed. The familiar surroundings of our lives, even our smallest gestures, were seen to have totally altered meanings. Asfor the reclining figure of a film star or this hospital&#8230;\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; from J.G. Ballard, the Atrocity Exhibition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marey\u2019s Chronograms. 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