How A Man Runs, 1883

How A Man Runs, 1883

Etienne-Jules Marey's, How A Man Runs, geometric chronophotograph, 1883 from the original negative on glass. Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) was a French scientist, physiologist and chronophotographer. He started by studying blood circulation in the human body. Then shifted to analyzing heart beats, respiration, muscles, and movement of the body. He became fascinated by movements of air and started to study birds. He adopted and further developed animated photography into a separate field of chronophotography in the 1880s. His revolutionary idea was to record several phases of movement on one photographic surface. In 1882 he made his chronophotographic gun. This instrument was capable of taking 12 consecutive frames a second, with all the frames recorded on the same picture, using these pictures he studied mammals, birds, fish, microscopic creatures, mollusks, insects and reptiles. His research on how to capture and display moving images helped the

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6600 x 1635 px | 30.9 MB

55.9 x 13.8 cm | 22.0 x 5.5 in (300 dpi)