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The Extensible Moment

By jso | Published: 4 February 2010
The digi­tal camera offers the photog­ra­pher a new dimen­sion in image-making–we might call it the exten­si­ble moment. Photographs made using film tech­nol­ogy can be said (as John Berger does) to cut across time. The minute-​long photographs that result from hold­ing a digi­tal camera in one posi­tion in movie mode embrace or include time as motion while retain­ing the lure [...]
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Make a one-minute movie

By jso | Published: 26 January 2010
If you hold a digital camera steady for a minute or so (in Movie mode), you get a still photograph with movement in it. Photographers have been "simulating" movement for a hundred years by registering blurs of more or less distinctness. Now they can get the detail and the movement at the same time, or during the same time--and time itself becomes a dimension of the photograph.
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