History of Photography Part 2: New Ways of Visualizing Time & Space AWQ1O Mr. Prasad History of Photography Part 2: New Ways of Visualizing Time & Space Locomotion, Chronophotography, Colour Photography

Human vision was inadequate… Technical (photographic) innovations of the 19th century changed the way people saw objects/people People couldn’t “see” things happening at a fraction of a second…the human eye was inadequate “spark exposures” at 1/100,000 of a second An early version of the flash Made to capture people walking, water dripping

What do these have in common? A railway builder A horse A photographer A scandalous love triangle

Locomotion That’s me! The Bet: does a horse’s feet leave the ground as it runs? 24 cameras faced the horse racing. Threads connected to electric switches lay across the race track. Horse raced through, pulled threads, snapshot was taken at 1/2000 of a sec. Eadweard Muybridge, Galloping Horse, Motion Study – Sallie Gardner, 1878 Muybridge accused of killing his wife’s lover, went on trial, acquitted in 1874 of murder, and fled San Francisco until 1877

Locomotion Developed a folding hand camera with a focal-plane shutter that allowed exposures at 1/1000 second Photos of storks nesting & in-flight amazed scientists Improved upon Muybridge’s locomotion studies (faster) and developed photos in motion that could be seen by many at once Ottomar Anschutz, Storks, 1882 Anschutz made photos of projectiles in flight at Krupps Weapons Plant

Chronophotography Eakins (realist painter) met Muybridge (photographer) and they became colleagues/BFFs Used Galloping Horse to influence his painting and teaching in Philadelphia, USA Asked Muybridge to include measurements in his work so artists could replicate it more easily Used wheel/disk camera to record on 1 plate Thomas Eakins, Jesse Godley, 1884 In 1883, Eakins (realist painter) met Muybridge (photographer) and they became colleagues/BFFs

Chronophotography Etienne-Jules Marey, Schenkel, High Jump, 1886 A scientist, physiologist seeking concrete/measurable facts to analyze human/animal movement A mechanical device attached the subject to a wire with a pen. Subject’s movement activated the pen to draw on paper how the subject moved. Quest: to picture a body’s “all at oneness”  to display all moving parts of the body