Hours, minutes, seconds:

the consolidation of the snapshot as the temporality of photography

Abstract

This essay analyzes the transits of temporalities of the photographic act, in order to observe how the process that took hours started to be done in a few seconds, culminating in the radicalism of the snapshot that marks the production and consumption of photographic images in contemporary times. As a result of this acceleration, photographs become ephemeral and disposable, presenting themselves as symptoms of a temporality of the present, which governs social relationships, communications and ways of thinking with the agonizing sensation of the constant absence of time.