12/27/23 7:15:23
The photograph ia always the blink of an eye, a quick capturing of time made timeless as it is removed from the flow of time.
It operates as two forms then—one, the present moment as seen in the here and now, as “captured.”
In its second, it becomes already a pointing towards the past, a sign that directs one to something already happened.
It is then witnessed as the here and now (you are seeing the photograph above now…and now…and now again) but what you are experiencing is the now already ion the distance past.
in this same way we experience the stars and even the sun as something currently already in the distant past. The sunlight is already nine minutes old when it reaches us—we never experience the sun and the stars directly. It is the temporal version of averted vision.
The above photograph taken early morning out the window on the Amtrak into New York from the Eastern bank of the Hudson River Fjord. A sudden glimpse of trees in the winter mist—the blink of an eye—an augenblik in German, or nikon in the Japanese—the momentary encapturing of time.