Motion & Early Pictorialism 6

EADWARD MUYBRIDGE

American photographer
Travels to Latin America
Many of his photos are gelatin dry plate
Uses technique called ‘sky shade’
Photographs Yosemite
Famous for Zoopraxiscope (which is used to shoot things in motion)
Motion captured by a row of 12 cameras - horses ran over trip wire to trigger cameras

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Volcano Quetzeltenango Guatemala
Panoramic San Francisco
Galloping
Woman Descending a Staircase (later imitated in a cubist painting by the artist Duchamp)

EAKINS

Studies form for painting using photography

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‘Swimming Hole’
‘Walt Whitman’

MAREY

French photographer - wants to understand flight &
biology & how things move
Chronophotography
Studies aerodynamics
Fusil Disk is invented by Marey and used to
photograph birds in flight. Fusil Disk is used like a shot gun

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Flying Pelican
Motion Suit image - Marey wants to study joint movement

BOCCINI

Futurist artist - Futurists believe that the future is more important than the past

PICTORIALISM

Inspired by Expressionist painters - Pictorialists want
photos to look handmade - painted or drawn

FREDERICK DAY

Openly gay photographer - photographs beautiful
young men
After released from prison, Day stayed in bed until he dies

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Male Nude with Hands Behind Head Standing - 1898
The Warrior - 1898

GERTRUDE KASABIER

Uses gum bichromate
Scratches emulsion off plate to get painterly effect

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Mother and Child - 1903

DEMACHY

French artist, resembles Degas

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Behind the Scenes

notes by Michelle Van Natta

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