Photographer Michael Wesley has been inventing and refining techniques for using extremely long camera exposures to take compelling photographs. Through the use of filters and a very small aperature (yet one that is standard in a professional camera lens), he is able to diminish the amount of light hitting the negative to the point where he can make the exposure last many thousands of times longer than we expect.In 2001, as The Museum of Modern Art was preparing for its ambitious construction and renovation project, it recognized in Wesely's work an unequalled opportunity to document that project in an artistically serious way. In August of that year, Wesely set specially designed cameras in longterm installations in and around the Museum, choosing his locations for the views they provided of the construction. Nearly three years later, the images are only recently complete, and their pentimento-like strata of transparencies and overlays render the construction project's evolution in time as a dense and delicate network in space. Through his work he captures the unstableness and constant rebuilding of the city and time, this process gives us clues to how time is relevant to change.
http://www.wesely.org/wesely/index.php
yes amazing work. I actually also heard from another long term exposure project of 100 years or so and where others will close the shutter and have a look.
SvarSlettits a beatiful idea to capture the sequence of the last hundred years and pass it on to someone else for their enjoyment. Been working as a carpenter before I started BAS, doing refurbishment of flats, I discovered that many carpenters write messages to each other on the inside of the walls they put up and often also hides a botle of booze as a present to the ones that open the walls they put up some fifty years later...sometimes communication is SLOW, this can make it more valuable/ appreciated.
SvarSlettreminds me of the reason why i look in hotel rooms on backsides of (not only) the paintings on the wall. Sometimes people actually also reply on them assuming the first person will come back to that same room.
SvarSletthaha, but what if you actually CAME BACK and someone answered!
SvarSlettIf you look at one of the first posts I made on this blog wich is under the header DE-ARCHITECTURALIZE I have a picture of some graffiti taken at the toilet at the bar I work in at Grønland. We decided to NOT buff the tags and instead look at it as a sort of museum of all the tags in Oslo (the place is a hangout spot for most of the writers in town) and thus recording the activity, sort of like a Writers Bench. I have been taking photographs of the wall the entire time, watching the development of the walls throughout one year and I never stop beeing amazed at the intricacy that comes with times. When someone writes over you, you write over him.