ARTH 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gelatin Silver Process, Eadweard Muybridge, Dziga Vertov
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New media l the overlap of science and art in the medium of photo. C. 1870 -ernst mach, shockwave around a supersonic projectile. The vocabulary of ealy film machines and modern images. Demonstrated movement in pictures for the first time. It used a strip of pictures placed around the surface of a spinning cylinder. Persistence of vision - space between frames. The horse in motion, animal locomotion, sampled movements,1878. Thomas edison and william hk dickson, assistant. Thomas eakins, philadelphia shot this stroboscopic image of a man walking. 1880"s marey motion studies of humans, man running, chronophtogtaphs. 1886 - etienne jules marey the running lion tamer, chronophotographs, humans in motion. 1882 lucien bull with marey wheel camera photographic soap bubble 1906. Bull soap bubble bursting 1904, silver gelatin print from a film strop. Took 54 pairs of pictures per second. 1901, marey smoke studies of air flow. 1880, muybridges, zoopraxiscope, first conceived and built by him.