Motion, Light and Photography: Science, Body, Art

1. Motion, Light and Photography: Science, Body, Art

2. Edward Muybridge 1870’s Eadweard Muybridge to figure out a bet about whether all 4 of a horses hooves ever leave the ground in a gallop. It took years, but Muybridge delivered: He rigged a racetrack with a dozen strings that triggered 12 cameras. Proved this true, and sparked motion pictures…

3. Etienne Jules Marey – Chronophotography1883 Man in the black suit with striping and points for chronophotography, 1883 E.J. Marey, Geometric Chronophotograph of the man in the black suit, 1883

4. Marey’s Photographic Gun Made in 1882, this instrument was capable of taking 12 consecutive frames a second. All the frames were recorded on the same picture. With this gun he studied human and animal locomotion.

6. Marey…

7. First painting with light – Marey and Demeny, 1889

8. Frank Gilbreth – Motion Studies - 1918 • Gilbreth is known for his motion films depicting workers – bricklaying, typing, etc – used as studies for more efficient and productive work methods. He called his films and photographs “Work Simplification Studies”. • Patented the “Chronophotograph” Process • light painting images used to study the movements of workers by attaching small lights to hands and bodies and making long exposures. He then made models of these light movements to study a worker’s efficiency. 3D motion models by Frank Gilbreth (1918)

9. Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, oil on canvas (1912) Eliot Eliofson, Duchamp descending a staircase, photograph from Life Magazine (1952)

10. Man Ray’s “Space Writing”, 1935 Gjon Mili with Picasso drawing a centaur, 1949 for Life Magazine.

11. Harold Edgerton: Flash Photography = Stop ActionStroboscope and Electronic Flash – 1964

12. Andreas Feninger, Helicopter taking off, 1949 Jacques Pugin, Graffiti Greffes, 1979

13. Josef Sedlak, 1980

14. Abelardo Morell Camera Obscura 10 Sunspots on my door.

15. Caleb Charland : http://calebcharland.com/