Analogue Photography
The photograph is not dependent on its subject.
Time - Light - Movement
Registrate
Registration
On film
Registration of various durations
To lay a registation over another registration
To lay a registration over other registrations
(this is called double-exposure or multi-exposure. it can only be authentically achieved through the means of registrating on film)
Inviting the hand of fate plays into Negative Capability
John Keats - I mean Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties. Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.
The camera is mechanical.
Mechanical means.
The mechanical means has its own duration, in counterpoint to the movements and durations before its lens.
To set the mechanical means to work, but to confront it with unpredictable factors.
This is registrated.
The duration's registration is set down as a writing with light.
The flickering reflected light is loaded into the film's surface, over and over.
'Then I began to go on, step by step, very slowly'
Analog (analogue) means that aspects of the physical composition/condition are analogous with physical compositions/conditions in the real world.
As above, so below.
'Garlic and sapphires in the mud
Clot the bedded axle-tree.
The trilling wire in the blood
Sings below inveterate scars
Appeasing long forgotten wars.
The dance along the artery
The circulation of the lymph
Are figured in the drift of stars
Ascend to summer in the tree
We move above the moving tree
In light upon the figured leaf
And hear upon the sodden floor
Below, the boarhound and the boar
Pursue their pattern as before
But reconciled among the stars.' Burnt Norton. T. S. Eliot
To be continued (13 September 2023)
