ABSTRACT
Photomedia, growing from roots firmly established in the era of the early image machines, experienced unprecedented expansion in the analogue age. The fundamental stages of photographic technology had been refined by the 1870s, providing the basis for rapid development of analogue technology which continued for over a hundred years into the 1980s. While Flusser's theory of photography begins with the industrialization of the image in the early era of the image machines, Virilio's theory of 'dromoscopy' begins in the analogue era, specifically in the late 1970s and early 1980s, as 'it was from that time onward that real time superseded real space'. It is this image-space, which forms through the fast transfer of images that initiates the ubiquity of the photomedia image in the analogue era. Through the capture of light, the images respond to and represent space and time characteristics and, in addition, they change our understanding of light-space-time through the visual indication of space and time.
