MAREY PHOTO GUN CODE
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Choose from multiple sizes and hundreds of frame and mat options. Many of Marey’s studies have been digitized by the BIUM at the University of Paris and are available online. Purchase an art print of the photograph 'Gun Birds' by Etienne Jules Marey. – Picturing time: the work of Etienne-Jules Marey, Marta Braun Chronophotography provided a language for representing simultaneity – what was popularly understood to be Bergson’s idea of time.” Marey’s pictures depicted chronological succession within a single frame.

MAREY PHOTO GUN CODE

For artists the attraction of the photographs lay in one important particular: they were the first images to effectively rupture the perspectival code that had dominated painting since the Renaissance. They were an irresistible and particularly fecund visual source. “artists who wished to give form to the new experience of time Bergson so articulately voiced were drawn to Marey’s pictures.

– Etienne-Jules Marey : a passion for the trace, François Dagognet Photo Gun - from our story 'tienne-Jules Marey: Filming Life On The Move Through An All-Seeing Eye' circa 1947: Cinematographic pioneer Etienne Jules Marey's photographic gun with a revolving photographic plate. “Marey made it possible for the avant-garde to become receptive to new values: instead of escape into the past, the unreal or the dream, there was the double cult of machines and their propulsion ” (148) inspiring Giacomo Balla & Luigi Russolo, Marinetti, and ultimately Duchamp (1912 Nude Decending a Staircase) I found a couple of eerily relevant Marey quotes from the excellent compilation by GregP on Interfacial Effects, a research-lookin’ blog about art and temporality: Marey used photography and early cinematography to study motion, and he developed a chronophotography gun which printed multiple exposures on a single surface.

MAREY PHOTO GUN SERIES

Which led me to the work of Etienne-Jules Marey, the pioneering 19th century French physiologist and chronophotographer. To study the flight of birds, he invented a camera in 1882 with magazine plates that recorded a series of photographs the pictures could be combined to. It’s like an automated cubism, or futurism, I thought, the photography of multiple simultaneous perspectives, or of motion. As that elongated lower head shows, Google’s image knitting algorithm apparently combined two photos of the guy, two photos separated by a couple of seconds and/or feet. I’ve been thinking about this image from Google Street View, the one of the Mauritshuis which contains two distorted images of the guy’s head.

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