Brown Sisters by Nicholas Nixon, 1975-Ongoing: In this series Nixon has photographed four sisters every year since 1975. We explicitly see how these women age and grow, and we also implicitly see how the photographer grows as an artist.
Dewy by Tracey Baran, 2000: This image shows an old glass filled with some liquid. The glass has clearly not been touched for a while so we see how everything has built up on and in it over time.
Downtown Detroit by Camilo Vergara, 1991: Vergara captures a changing Detroit, putting in stark contrast the old and the new parts of the city so through a still image we see how the city changes through time.
Copperhead Grid by Moyra Davey, 1990: Davey takes macro images of dilapidated pennies, showing us how these universal (to Americans) objects change and decay over time/
Sunburned GSP#888 (Strait of Juan De Fuca, new years day) by Chris McCaw , 2016: McCaw takes light sensitive negatives and leaves them in the sun for hours and the sun literally burns its way across the print. As time passes it imprints itself on the paper.
Sleep of the Beloved by Paul Schneggenburger, Circa 2013: In this series the photographer sets up a camera over a couple’s bed and takes a long exposure shot that lasts for hours, capturing a couples entire night’s sleep in a single image.
Reframing History by Susan Meiselas, 2004: Meiselas had taken photojournalistic images of the Nicaraguan civil war 25 years before her Reframing History series. In this series she reprints the images on billboards in the location she had taken them decades before.
History’s Shadow by David Maisel, 2011: In this series Maisel takes x rays of museum artifacts, making images that look like transmissions from a distant past.
Sears Roebuck Darko Rough by Alison Rossiter, 2012: In this series Rossiter takes negatives that expired decades ago and develops them, seeing through this process both what was left behind on the negative and how time has altered the image.
From Deep South by Sally Mann, 1998: In this series Mann uses a photographic process from the 1800s to capture Southern Landscapes, making images imbued with beauty and the troubling history of where they are shot.
