We watched the movie Paterson the other evening, accompanied by a delicious pizza with a cauliflower crust. I found certain aspects of the film quite interesting, while other parts flowed past me like the waters of the Passaic River. The notion of time as the fourth dimension came up in some of the poems (you'll have to watch the movie), and this got me thinking about how time manifests itself in photography. Of course, poets have their own ways of dealing with time.
Here, waves of water passing through a double slit superpose to create a simulation of the diffraction that can also occur at much smaller scales. Coherent and incoherent wave dynamics are an interesting way that time can be manifested within a photograph.
Another way to deal with time is to use a film strip or grid. Below is a sequence of images of water reflections on a wall. The grid invites us to create a narrative.
The photographer George Tice created a body of work in Paterson, including a view of the bridge and falls that were important in the film. Interestingly, the view hasn't really changed that much over the years.
