Tim Macmillan’s work is ground breaking in two areas that are at the heart of modern and contemporary enquiries. For over 150 years scientists, artists and philosophers have been seeking ways of understanding and representing space and time. These enquiries can broadly be divided into methods of representing space (e.g. the panorama and the cinéorama) and methods of represented time (e.g. chronophotography). Tim Macmillan’s work in both these areas has been so advanced that many say that our era has been partly defined by his work.

To make “Bath Half Marathon”, Macmillan built a camera that records a continuous time stream and therefore, by implication he has shown us how to record space.

Look at advertising, digital culture and cinema and throughout you will see the heritage of Macmillan’s work.

Image © Tim Macmillan 1994