“For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches—and I recall that at first photographic implements were related to techniques of cabinetmaking and the machinery of precision: cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing.”
—Roland Barthes
As photography moves from paper prints, to digital images, to a future that we can only imagine, what remains fundamentally “photographic”? At its essence—and since its beginnings—photography measures light and time. The four artist projects unfolding in 2016–2017, as well as the Light Clock on the museum’s front plaza, expand upon and perhaps explode this notion, using it as a springboard to investigate contemporary social issues.
