Picturing Time: The Work of Étienne-Jules Marey (1830–1904)
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| - | :"Male and female models, nude and clothed, were photographed in all manner of [[activity]] - walking, running, laying bricks, climbing stairs, fencing, jumping. [[Muybridge]] even photographed [[one girl throwing a bucket of water over another girl's shoulders]], and a [[mother spanking a child]][http://jahsonic.tumblr.com/post/584834453/rousseaus-mental-health-is-an-instance-of]. His specific intention was to create an atlas for the use of artists, a [[visual dictionary]] of [[human and animal forms in action]]." --''[[The history of photography, from 1839 to the present day]]'', [[Beaumont Newhall]], [[1964]]. | + | ''[[Picturing Time: The Work of Étienne-Jules Marey (1830–1904)]]'' (1992) by [[Marta Braun]] . |
| + | [[Etienne-Jules Marey]] was an inventor whose methods of recording movement revolutionized our way of visualizing time and motion. Best remembered for his chronophotography, Marey constructed a single-camera system that led the way to cinematography. Picturing Time, the first complete survey of Marey's work, investigates the far reaching effects of Marey's inventions on stream-of-consciousness literature, psychoanalysis, Bergsonian philosophy, and the art of cubists and futurists. | ||
| - | As [[Marta Braun]] claimed in 1992’s [[Picturing Time: The Work of Étienne-Jules Marey (1830–1904)]]: | + | Braun offers a fascinating look at how Marey's chronophotography was used to express the profound transformation in understanding and experiencing time that occurred in the late nineteenth century. Featuring 335 illustrations, Picturing Time includes many unpublished examples of Marey's chronophotographs and cinematic work. It also contains a complete bibliography of his writings and the first catalog of his films, photographic prints, and recently discovered negatives. |
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| - | :"The photographs objectify erotic impulses and extend voyeuristic curiosity in language we now recognise as taken from the standard pornographic vocabulary." | ||
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Picturing Time: The Work of Étienne-Jules Marey (1830–1904) (1992) by Marta Braun .
Etienne-Jules Marey was an inventor whose methods of recording movement revolutionized our way of visualizing time and motion. Best remembered for his chronophotography, Marey constructed a single-camera system that led the way to cinematography. Picturing Time, the first complete survey of Marey's work, investigates the far reaching effects of Marey's inventions on stream-of-consciousness literature, psychoanalysis, Bergsonian philosophy, and the art of cubists and futurists.
Braun offers a fascinating look at how Marey's chronophotography was used to express the profound transformation in understanding and experiencing time that occurred in the late nineteenth century. Featuring 335 illustrations, Picturing Time includes many unpublished examples of Marey's chronophotographs and cinematic work. It also contains a complete bibliography of his writings and the first catalog of his films, photographic prints, and recently discovered negatives.
