Weegee, It’s six o’clock in the morning on the electric clock on top of the Consolidated Edison Company building on Fourteenth Street… I think they have the clock up there to remind the customers to pay their bills, ca. 1945
Artists’ Poster Committee, We Begin Bombing In Five Minutes, 1984
Horace Bristol, [Still life objects (clock, bottom of lamp) in home in former mining boomtown], 1937
Russell Lee, Family on relief, 1941
Lee Sievan, Third Ave. at 35th St., 1940s
Eugène Atget, Berne (Suisse), 1900
Alfred Eisenstaedt, Farewell of servicemen at Pennsylvania Station with famed clock, New York City, March 1943
Inspired by a visit to the amazing Christian Marclay 24-hour video Clock at the Paula Cooper Gallery last winter, I spent the better part of a day searching the archive for 1,440 photographs, representing all 1,440 minutes of a day… not surprisingly I couldn’t find a photo of every minute… nevertheless, here are some highlights, a chronological cheap imitation.
Clock, still timeless, returns to New York City today through August 1.
