ABSTRACT
This chapter begins by posing the fundamental guiding question of this book: How does photography relate to and express time? It introduces the medium of photography – from its origin – as an innately temporal medium, and one innately focused on expressing not just time’s fleeting passage, but as a way by which time can be “cheated,” manipulated, or preserved from its lived continuum. It concludes by introducing the book’s thesis: that the medium may be seen as both a product of technological modernity and as its faithful catalyst.
