[The moving sidewalk, 1900].
Two photos of the same scene, but taken at an interval of a second or two, raise questions of the time lapse and what occurs between frozen frames. The subjects are Freud and a group of his relatives in the summer of 1900. As if waiting for a lecture which has not yet begun, and may never begin, they face their respective fates and futures. What will happen is implicit in what is happening and in what has already happened. The mechanisms of the Trottoir roulant or of dream scenes recalled are analogous to the experience of time reconstructed from these fragmented images.
Molnar
Michael
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Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardens, London NW3, 5SX, England. michael@mmolnar.freeserve.co.uk
D004325:Dreams; D049672:History, 19th Century; D010781:Photography / Q000266:history*; D013995:Time