Etienne Jules Marey used photography to present his scientific findings. By photographing things in motion he was able to make charts of systems in action which he could then examine for irregularities. 'Photography lends form to things that are not normally visible to the human eye.' Science has used photography to zoom in with microscopes, capture human bone structures with X-Rays and reveal motion. Before the invention of the camera we didn't know how a horse ran. Eadweard Muybridge photographed things in motion in the same ways that Marey worked. He is responsible for photographing a horse running, revealing through photography something that we did not know nor could discover with our eyes.
Lazlo Moholy Nagy recognsied that if the world was to move forward with art, then as artists we must harness technology as a means of producing art. Perpetual motion explored by Marey and Muybridge was the beginning of this. Photography is a tool of the industrialised, modern world. It is the perfect way to link art and science together. It functioned as both a tool of science and art, simultaneously. The work of Marey and Muybridge showed that a photograph didn't need to be bound by a single point perspective. Photography applied in a few scientific experiments showed that photography was a truly modern art form. |
Jaques Henri LartigueIn Lartigue's photographs we do not see a track of motion like in Bragaglia and Himmel's work, we just see the subject being in a position where motion is undeniable. Photograph 2 is surreal, her dress has the same texture and tone of the stone next to it which makes each object seem to blend into one another. Lartigue was a painter and throughout his university life he primarily focused on his painting. His photographs informal approach informal approach to life allowed him to create his own photographic language for creating fun, motion filled, surreal painting like photographs. Since the camera sees in different ways to the eye, Lartigue was able to freeze time and motion to see the figure in motion in a way which only the camera could reveal.
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'the almost impossible task of getting stills that look like movement....the sense of and the sequences of movement are present."
- George Balanchine
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I used Photoshop to create my Futurist image. I simply overlaid each image on top of one another and reduced the opacity of each of them. The result is different to Paul Himmel and Anton Giulio Bragaglia because they both use film. Rather than achieving a continuous trail of light in their images, the idea of motion is achieved with an overlay of stills that track the movement of a character from A to B.
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This is a 360 degree image of the photographs of the shopping trolly. Although this was not related to the question I wanted to experiment with showing motion through changing the angle that the photograph was taken. The motion is displayed through a change of angle. Although the subject is not in motion which the exam question asks, I could now apply this technique to a moving subject.
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The black and white image abstracts the photograph making it harder to depict what the subject is due to it only focusing on tone. I will experiment return to this so I can see the effect of the figure in motion with movement of the camera angle and the image in black and white.
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This process of glitching the photograph produces an image that we couldn't imagine so vividly as the camera creates a disjointed illusion of reality with this glitch and it also relates to László Moholy-Nagy's quote that 'Photography applied in a few scientific experiments showed that photography was a truly modern art form.' Although the photographs above are by no means applied in a scientific practise, they do show that through the very modern phenomenon of the mobile phone camera, we can see that through harnessing technology, photography has shown itself to be a truly modern art form once again. This shows that the process of using the panorama feature to glitch the image is not only a very unique process to the camera itself but is also a very relevant way of using modern technology to capture motion in the contemporary day.
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