Whereas Cartier-Bresson confirmed the traditional with his painterly eye, Frank and Eggleston signalled the future, their photographs informed by some deeper, darker narratives guided by their outsiders' eyes.
In the future a photograph will take a couple of minutes at most and always be as perfect as human flesh and art can allow.
It looks back to George's life onboard HMS Dragon, but also forward to a future in which photographs have been banned (those lucky enough to be in possession of a photograph must gaze on it in secret, gathering with others in a temporary structure not unlike the tabernacle).
In "Camera Lucida" (1980), the philosopher Roland Barthes, looking at a photograph of a condemned man about to be put to death, wrote about the strangely mixed "anterior future" tense of photographs, the morbid idea embedded in all of them: "This will be and this has been.
The Impossible Project, an effort to sustain Polaroid film stock, cameras, and culture, might want to rethink the "impossible" part: though the Polaroid company no longer exists, and the project still faces an uphill battle to keep the dream alive, they've certainly carved out a nice little niche in the field of photography, laying the foundation for a future with Polaroid photographs.
He suggested that a second camera be used in future studies to photograph license plates, allowing researchers to double-check the race of drivers.
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Dreambox: The Future of the Photograph.
They are building the future of the photograph, trying to capture moments in 3D.
