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Photographing Time – Artist Jay Mark Johnson Captures the 4th Dimension

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“You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension – a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind…”

So began every episode for the famous Twilight Zone series.

And so should a viewer be forewarned when gazing upon the surrealist images of Jay Mark Johnson. For these truly are an exploration into another dimension. [Now that you are forewarned, go ahead and browse through his work in the gallery above.]

Before you even go there: No, these are not photoshopped.

What Johnson has done is use a slit camera that captures a narrow vertical sliver of a scene. By snapping a sequence of shots through that slit and lining them all up together in chronological order, Johnson is left with a single piece that essentially depicts the passage of time as seen through that narrow slit. In this sense, each photograph is actually a composite of hundreds of very slim images.

Things get real interesting when an object or objects in motion — like crashing sea waves or a leaping dancer — is captured.

Groovy perspective, right?

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Photographing Time – Artist Jay Mark Johnson Captures the 4th Dimension

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  1. Fotograf Osnabrück says:
    October 23, 2012 at 11:13 am

    Extremly crazy ^^
    Why are these people so thin?
    But anyway, very nice. Someting ne for me.

  2. Michael Sullivan says:
    October 23, 2012 at 10:01 am

    OK, I have my undergrad in Photography and cinematography, and reading about this on Wikipedia made my brain hurt. This guy is incredible.

  3. Andrew says:
    October 23, 2012 at 9:35 am

    its one camera capturing one vertical line of pixels with each photo and repeating the process thousand of times a second and then merging the images

  4. Lindsay Branscombe says:
    October 23, 2012 at 9:30 am

    im still a tad confused… is it multiple cameras? one camera moving? how fast does it move?

  5. Stian Ulriksen says:
    October 23, 2012 at 9:22 am

    Isn’t this what they do in horse races?

    1. Andrew says:
      October 23, 2012 at 9:25 am

      yeah and any race that requires a photo Finnish these are the photos

      1. faisal says:
        October 24, 2012 at 7:16 am

        Looks uber cool but not as detailed!

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