In this Emerling chapter, time is discussed in a way that explain and express how time is a construct that contributes to the way that photography is perceived and even created. Time being something that I have previously had talked about in a way of how it is an influence to art, this was an explanation that furthered that much more. I actually enjoyed this section more than the previous because of the way Emerling chose to use the text in a way that made me think differently about a part of the process that is involved in photography. Most of what was being said I agree with but it was written in a way that better put into words a definition of what photography has the potential to do way above how I would be able to articulate all that it could do. Essentially I got from this section that photography is more than just a photo but much more, which I think many would agree with but this furthered that by explaining how it is not a visual but an experience, a sensation, the influence it has on memory, the language it creates, which connects to the universal language we previously discussed, and "how a photograph is always simultaneously here and there, now and then... and gives us an experience of dislocation in space and time; a temporal sensation traverses space."
Question: In relation to when Emerling states photographs can be narratives but some argue that they can't be taken as narratives themselves and 'aspect' allows for an approach to photography that admits the complexity of the relation between an image and time, a relation that is traveled by memory, new uses and narration, how does a photograph act as a narrative or does it not act as a narrative?
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