On Time-Lapse Photography

Over the years I have worked sporadically on a book to be entitled On Time Lapse Photography.

This has resulted in two publications:

* “’No more unexplored countries’: The Early Promise and Disappointing Career of Time-Lapse Photography.” Film Studies (special issue on “Film and Time” ed. Sarah Cardwell). Issue 9, Winter 2006: 1-8.

* “Poetry as Time-Lapse Photography.” Essays in the Arts and Sciences 17 (1988): 1-27.

But since there is still much more that has never seen its way into print, I thought I would make it available here in Blog form--in a medium which will allow me to illustrate the text with still images and embedded video.

When I am done, On Time-Lapse Photography will include:

--Prologue: Phusis, Poesis, and the Prehistory of Time-Lapse
--Chapter 1: Evolution, Relativity, and the Momentous
--Chapter 2: “’No more unexplored countries’: The Early Promise and Disappointing Career of Time-Lapse Photography”
--Chapter 3: Fear of Time-Lapse--Chapter 4: Poetry and Time-Lapse Photography
--Chapter 5: Time-Lapse in Koyaanisqatsi
--Chapter 6: The Man Who Saw Through Time: Loren Eiseley's Time-Lapse Imagination
--Conclusion: The New Phusis

I hope you find it of interest. Write me at david.lavery@gmail.com

Below are some illustrative examples of time-lapse (all from YouTube):

Niagara Falls in Motion from Matthew Wartman on Vimeo.

Time-Lapse Favs from Chad Richard on Vimeo.

The White Mountain from charles on Vimeo.

Get up and go from Stefan Werc on Vimeo.

Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull - May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo.

You've Got to Love London from Alex Silver on Vimeo.

Rainbow Timelapse - Napoli, Italia from Vincent Laforet on Vimeo.

ANTS in my scanner > a five years time-lapse! from françois vautier on Vimeo.

Sung Lapse from Ezaram Vambe on Vimeo.

inter // states from Samuel Cockedey on Vimeo.

New York City - Timelapse from stimul on Vimeo.

Aurora Borealis timelapse HD - Tromsø 2010 from Tor Even Mathisen on Vimeo.

December 2010 Blizzard Timelapse from Michael Black on Vimeo.

NYC - Mindrelic Timelapse from Mindrelic on Vimeo.

Northern Lights from Christian Mülhauser on Vimeo.

The Aurora from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.

The Mountain from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.

Tip of the hat to Ryan Brosche.

Midnight Sun | Iceland from SCIENTIFANTASTIC on Vimeo.

android dreams from Samuel Cockedey on Vimeo.