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Playing with Light
Delivered to 1st Year Undergraduate Photography Students
Coventry University, Coventry, UK
Jonathan Shaw
Sphinx on the Seine (excerpt) 2008 by Paul Clipson
Gjon Mili
Gjon Mili
Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2, 1912Marcel Duchamp
Light is the subject
Line Describing a Cone, 1973 by Anthony McCall
Anthony McCall http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-HWsxPnNNY
Sky Space by James Turrell
James Turrell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rJa9kIVwto
“
Rather than being a journal of my seeing, it is about your
seeing… I would just like to take you and put you in
front of this mountain in a way you couldn’t miss it. It’s
all that I can hope for and that way there is a possibility
that the same kind of delight of seeing that happens to
me, could happen to you.
”
James Turrell talking about his Roden Crater Project
Roden Crater Project, Arizona James Turrell
Light as a measurement of
time
Eadweard Muybridge
Invisible Worlds - Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge
Dir. Frank Budgen, Time Slice by Tim MacMillan
Etienne-Jules Marey
Thomas Eakins
Harold Edgerton
Harold Edgerton
Harold Edgerton
Harold Edgerton
Harold Edgerton
Invisible Worlds - Harold Edgerton http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9O5WuvLwdA
Dir. Nick Knight http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81V3VEHzFiA
Anton Giulio Bragaglia
“
depict movement as an indivisible reality, rather than a
sequence of static poses ... We are not interested in the
precise reconstruction of movement, which has already
been broken up and analysed. We are involved only in
the area of movement which produces sensation, the
memory of which still palpitates in our awareness
”
Dir. Chris Cunningham http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nOzL8vF4_M
Like a Rolling Stone 1995 Dir. Michel Gondry, Photography Andy Earl
Jonathan Shaw
Frenchgate Centre
Jonathan Shaw
j.shaw@coventry.ac.uk
@time_motion
www.jonathan-shaw.com
www.disruptivemedia.org.uk

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