moving right along... check out this site called Freeze Frame: Edweard Muybridge's photography of motion. Some call him "the father of cinema". His historic sequence of photographs showing a horse in motion settled a long running fued. read all about it!
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I really like Eadweard Muybridge's photography. The multiple pictures took the place of a comic book and told a story. The motion was successfuly shown. However, as I look more at his pictures some of them were very disturbing. http://www.laurencemillergallery.com/images/distortion_muybridge.jpg (example)
Just to start, he's so skinny it gives me the chills.
All of Muybridge's pictures are creative though.
The sequence of the pictures does create a unique motion. The ability to capture motion through still 2-D pictures is really cool and allows for the viewer to look at the pictures in a different perspective...
The Freeze Frame works at first look seemed out dated and of poor quality--because they are. It takes a moment for the realization to sink in. It's hard for us to believe that photography as we know it, with digital cameras and television, is a rather new invention. Muybridge was at the head of the movement focused on capturing snapshots of motion. His techniques were ingenious. The different angles of one action, shot at the same time, give the object the illusion of spinning in a circle. The figures seem more complex, even though the actualy prints are just pictures of a simple action.
Muybridge was definitely way before his time in terms of the different works of photography he used in his artwork. The movement without actual movement is really fascinating. Even with a camera today (excluding obviously a video camera) it is hard to get a sense of motion with a 2-dimensional work of art. Muybridge clearly was able to bring motion to his artwork which is a pretty good sucess. He could be one of the sole reasons why we understand how a video camera works to capture pictures and put them into motion. INTERESTING! :)
I really like these freeze frame pictures. its actually kinda interesting to see the same movement or motion being portryaed at different angles around the body. It gives a new perspective on the way that you see things and the unknown complexity of simple motions and movenments.
Eadweard Muybridge's freeze frame photography is interesting in that it contains multiple pictures of a single image. Although the pictures appear to be moving along in a sequence , they are actually standing still. One image is taken from different angles. His unique unique photography and placement is one that is very simple but eye-catching at the same time.
Ive always thought the flipbook style, moving image idea is very cool in art. it does not seem particulalry original to me today but i know that that is becasue he lived a long time ago. The series is very fluid and i like his choice of background--it really sets a nice mood.
to me i found it very interesting because of its out datedness and how i looked at the pictures was each picture was telling a story.
It's interesting how some of the pictures show a sequence of events and some show different angles of a single moment in time. It's cool seeing the things that led to the development of film.
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